some import / namespace questions

[Steve Holden]

stef mientki wrote:
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:11:19 +0200, stef mientki wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Now it's not possible to import in the existing modules the main plugin, 
>>> like
>>>    from Main_User import *
>>> because this will start the infinite loop.
>>>     
>> Which means there's code at the module level. 
> yes
>>  Tell the users to put that
>> into a function, then you can import the module without executing this
>> main loop.
>>   
> ok, I'll do that for the user (the user writes in another language),
> and indeed it works,
> but has one disadavantage ... see below
>> And don't do a * import because your users might use names that the
>> importing module uses already and which would get replaced by the * import.
>>
>>   
> Yes that's a principal problem with this program, for which I've no 
> (simple) solution.
> I'm simulating a microprocessor language here, where "globality"  is an 
> essential part of the language.
> So I'll have to stick to import *, (although I'm aware it's not a good 
> programming method, especially in user plug-ins)
> and now the problem is that I get a warning that import * is only 
> allowed at the module level :-(
> But despite the warning it's still working. ;-)
> 
If you read the docs on the warnings module you should be able to 
suppress that message.

regards
  Steve
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