[Python-Dev] Alternate notation for global variable assignments

[Nick Coghlan]

Guido van Rossum strung bits together to say:
> which loses the "aha!" effect of a cool solution.  It also IMO
> requires too much explanation to the unsuspecting reader who doesn't
> understand right away *why* rumpelstiltkin imports itself.

I believe someone else also suggested that if rumpelstiltskin should be imported as:

import fairytales.rumpelstiltskin

then a bare import is going to have trouble, even inside the module.

Cheers,
Nick.

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