newbie questions about imports, threads, and optimizations

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Bryce Sellers wrote:
> First, is there a way to do something like this:
> 
> import string, mystring
> m = 'string'
> `m`.captalize('hello')
> m='mystring'
> `m`.capitalize('hello')

   You are very close :)

m = string
m.captalize('hello')

   In python, every name (EVERY NAME!) is just a name of variable
containing a pointer to an object. When you import a module, there is
nothing magical in its name - it is just a variable containing a pointer to
the module. Copy the pointer (m = string) and use the new variable that now
holds the same pointer.

Oleg.            (All opinions are mine and not of my employer)
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           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.