import namespace issues

[Alex Martelli]

"Harald Kirsch" <kirschh at lionbioscience.com> wrote in message
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> "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > "Harald Kirsch" <kirschh at lionbioscience.com> wrote in message
> > news:yv2lmlxgnji.fsf at lionsp093.lion-ag.de...
> > > QUESTION 2:
> > > Is there a detailed description somewhere in the docs about the
> > > namespaces (or dictionaries) used/created/shuffled during an import?
> >
> > I think the documentation for __import__ is pretty clear about
> > it, "the standard implementation does not use its locals argument
> > at all, and uses its globals only to determine the package context
> > of the import statement".
>
> I sometimes find that the python docs seem to expect some prior
> knowledge about `obvious behaviour' from the reader and consequently
> are a bit terse. Therefore I believed the above statement only after
> having read the code :-)

Reading the code is hardly a bad thing!  If you understand enough
C to read the Python sources, you'll find most of them clear and
very instructive (there are some exceptions to the clarity, where
things get VERY subtle and hard to follow).


Alex