Newbie question - calling external Python programs

[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba]

On Sat, <stephen_ferg at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
[...about imports. Civilised ways of importing lot of modules...]

Well, python is so damned advanced that you can  import a module
whenever you want to. You can import :

- inside a function:

def a():
	import cool_module
	cool_module.init_yourself()

- inside any class method

python is so damned flexible that 99 % of your code may be broken
and the process doesn't stop if it never reaches to the "buggy zones".

Even you can safely recover from faulty imports.

try:
	import a
except:
	flag_faulty_import_a = 1


Although is not mentioned anywhere. Python is a dictionary-oriented
language or better, a symbols-table-oriented language.

You can add new symbols to the "current" symbols-table whenever
you want and you never have problems if all names (of functions/
variables) have been found in the symbols-table.

Doing the similar thing in C++ or Java is , how would I say?,
f*ckingly impossible.

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MGA