"import X" and "from X import y" produce different results, Why?

[Robin Thomas]

At 06:46 AM 3/1/01 +0000, Parzival Herzog wrote:

>So, apparently the imported X is a copy of xx.X, not the same object by
>another name.
>Can anyone explain this result? Is this result justified by a Python
>language specifcation?

You "re-bound" the local name X to 99. When you did that, the object 
previously bound to the local name X -- 35, which was bound to X by "from 
xx import X" -- was unbound. A clearer example without the import to 
confuse you:

X = 35
print X
X = 99
print X


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Robin Thomas
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