Scope question

[Quinn Dunkan]

On 9 Feb 2002 03:36:11 GMT, Philip Swartzleonard <starx at pacbell.net> wrote:
>I may stop doing this in the future though... i think i may make a 
>module 'interface' and do 'form xxx import *'s in there, so then import 
>it as 'i'. i.wxFrame, i.glutPostRedisplay, etc (it would also be nice if 
>there was a sperate module of the GL's that didn't preface GL infront of 
>everything. gl.vertex3d looks a lot better than gl.glVertex3d... :)

def un_uGLify(mod_name):
    import new
    mod = __import__(mod_name)
    m = new.module(mod_name)
    for k, v in mod.__dict__.items():
        if k.startswith('gl'):
            k = k[2:]
        setattr(m, k, v)
    return m
gl = un_uGLify('gl')


... should do what you want... I think.

I don't see what you'd gain from an 'i' module... you'd simply shift all the
potential name clashes and the 'where did this symbol come from'
headscratching over to another module.