[Tutor] question 1

[Danny Yoo]

>> Secondarily, why can you import a module without it importing all of its
>> daughters?
>
> The act of importing a module is "recursive": if you import a module,
> and that module itself has import statements, then Python will do the
> import of the child modules too.  And so forth.

Hi Deb,

Oh!  By the way, this echoes that point about recursion from a week or so ago.

    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2014-September/102715.html

So yes, recursion shows up at the heart of the Python module import
system too.  That should have been an obvious example, but I forgot.
:P