[Tutor] is an alias a variable

[Alan Gauld]

On 31/01/14 09:57, Ian D wrote:

> import longModuleName  as lmn
>
> or
>
> lmn = longModuleName
>
> creating an alias or assigning to a variable..... or both?

variables in Python are just names.
There is no concept of an alias as such, its just another
name referring to the same object.

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