nested scopes

[Rainer Deyke]

"Martin von Loewis" <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote in message
news:p6qhf2crp6q.fsf at informatik.hu-berlin.de...
> def foo(module_names):
>   for m in module_names:
>     exec "from %s import *" % m
>   return dir()

Yuck.

def foo(*names):
  dict = {}
  for name in names:
    dict.update(__import__(name).__dict__)
  return dict

Note the absensce of local variables 'm' and 'module_names' in the returned
dictionary.


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