Import without executing module

[Steve Holden]

Taskinoor Hasan wrote:
[...]
> It make sense :-).  So my reasoning......let A is imported in B, i.e.
> name A is put in B's namespace. When we call something like A.a then the
> interpreter first resolve A in B's namespace, then to get a, it need to
> look up A's namespace. And there is no way to populate A's namespace
> without executing A, and as all statements, including 'def', 'class'
> etc., are treated in the same way, whole script need to be executed.
> 
> So whether a script can be imported as module or not is mainly dependent
> on how the script is written and largely on the intention of the coder.
> 
That's right!

regards
 Steve
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