Scope question

[Joshua Marshall]

Another possibility:

from mymod import *

def dosomething(x):
    import mymod
    mymod.dosomething(1000)


MDK <mdk at mdk.com> wrote:
> I have this:

> # myprog.py

> from mymod import *

> def dosomething(x):
>     dosomething(1000)

> # End code

> I want the dosomething(1000) run from the function in mymod.  However,
> instead it is running dosomething(x) in myprog.py.

> Note: Changing the names of dosomething() in either module is not an option.
> (The names depicted here are not the real names in the program but have been
> changed for clarity.)

> I know that one way to fix this is to change

> from mymod import *

> to

> import mymod

> But I would like to know if, without changing the import line, there is a
> way to tell Python to use the dosomething() from mymod.

> I tried mymod.dosomething(1000) but it returns an error:
> AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute
> 'dosomething'

> Thanks!