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[Magnus Lie Hetland]

This is something we talked about a while back during a discussion
about "Python vs Perl", where powerful one-liners were seen
as a strength of Perl... Having the import implicit would make them
easier in Python too... I seen to remember advocating a switch for this...
I.e. if you run Python with the implicit import switch, it would somehow
("magically") find modules itself... I'm not sure how useful it would be,
though...

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  Magnus
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Joel Lucsy <jjlucsy at concentric.net> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to not have to explicitly do imports? Such as:
>          fl=glob.glob('*')
> without the:
>          import glob
> Is there a __getattr__ for globals that could trap the glob not being
> present, see if it could import it, etc....?
> Just wondering, I have no current need. Nor do I think it should be a
> standard. Just something that an individual could cook up for his system
to
> really bash out scripts in record time.
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>  - Joel Lucsy (jjlucsy at concentric.net)
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