namespace question

[Rainer Deyke]

Jerome Chan <eviltofu at rocketmail.com> wrote in message
news:eviltofu-8E2F45.12073510062000 at news.earthlink.net...
> If I do the following:
>
> import socket
>
> socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>
> how do I call a function from the socket module later on?

Technically correct answer (assuming that you don't use the name _socket):

_socket = socket
import socket
# call socket function here
socket = _socket
del _socket


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