Python modules

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On 01/14/2013 04:01 PM, Dan Sommers wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:54:27 +0100, zoom wrote:
>
>> Is there any "rules" regarding importing python modules within your own
>> module? I mean, how does this affects the performance of the program?
>
> "Even the initializers are optimized!" -- Mel, the real programmer
>
Great!

> Unless you've profiled it, and the extra memory taken up by unused
> functions or modules is measurable and near the top of the list of
> performance issues, I wouldn't worry about it.
>
>> Now I have two instances of every function within scipy, e.g.
>> scipy.r_[a] = sound.scipy.r_[a]
>
> No:  now you have two names for every function within scipy.  The
> functions themselves are not duplicated.
>
> Dan

Now I love Python even more...