Scope question

[Keith Jones]

> > from mymod import *
> >
> > def dosomething(x):
> >     import mymod
> >     mymod.dosomething(1000)
>
> Nope,this does not work.  As the O.P. already noted....
>
...
>
> from module import *  does not create a reference to module in the current
> namespace, so there's nothing there to look up attributes from.
>

did you miss the fact that he's importing mymod in the function?  'Course,
based on the example, then, the 'from mymod import *' is unnecessary, I
would think.

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-Keith Jones
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