why sqrt is not a built-in function?
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jan 15 21:41:03 EST 2021
On 16/01/21 10:14 am, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> I had no idea that syntax existed, and find it completely at odds
> with The Zen of Python.
It's not an *obvious* way, so there's no Zen conflict.
As for why it exists, it's part of the mechanism that implements
imports -- 'import' statements get compiled into a call to
__import__.
It also provides a way of importing something specifed by a
string at runtime, so it can be useful.
--
Greg
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