Is this right? Multiple imports of same module.

[Lou Pecora]

In article <DThIh.10891$tD2.1731 at newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> 
> 	Expected behavior if you 1) understand how Python variable binding
> works, and 2) that "from <> import *" is equivalent to
> 
> import <>
> name1 = <>.name1
> name2 = <>.name2
> 
> 	IOWs, one is creating local names that are bound to the objects
> inside the imported module. If, subsequently, one does
> 
> name2 = 123
> 
> one has UNbound the connection to <>.name2 and rebound the local name to
> the integer object 123. Whereas 
> 
> <>.name2 = 123 
> 
> says "go into the module <>, and rebind its 'name2' to the integer
> object 123"; since you "went inside" to do the rebinding, any other code
> that also uses the <>.name2 reference will see the change inside <>.


Ah! (light bulb goes on)  Yes, I get it.  Thanks.  No more from ** 
import *.

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