[Tutor] Namespace question

[Emile van Sebille]

On 1/20/2012 10:34 AM Tino Dai said...
> Hi everybody,
>
>       Got a namespace question framed inside a Django project (but I
> still think it's pertinent to Python). We moved and broke settings.py
> four different files in a separate directory called settings. So instead
> of doing a
>
>  >>> import settings
>  >>> settings.whatever
>
> We are having to do:
>
>  >>> import settings
>  >>> settings.settings.whatever


You could....

from settings import settings

... which then allows access as

settings.whatever


HTH,

Emile


>
> This is inconvenient and probably will break stuff especially with
> django framework code. Is there a way to play with the namespacing to
> have python have the former behavior rather than the latter behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> Tino
>
>
>
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