question about shadowing built-in names
John Salerno
johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Tue May 23 12:39:39 EDT 2006
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> import MySQLdb
>>
>> db = connect(blah blooh blee)
>
> Actually, the above has already failed <G> Should be
> MySQLdb.connect...
Heh heh, yeah, I totally meant to do that on purpose. ;)
> Well, if you have a habit of doing
> from module import *
> and later rebind one of the imported names...
I see. So doing a regular import <name> statement keeps the namespace
confined to that module, right? So I would be able to create my own
variable with the same name as a name in the imported module, and this
wouldn't be a problem as long as I didn't import with *?
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