[Tutor] Namespace question

[Alexander]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:

> 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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Yes I think you could also:

>>> import settings as settings
or
>>> import settings as s

( or whatever )


-- 
Alexander
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