Scope question

[Philip Swartzleonard]

phil hunt || Thu 07 Feb 2002 03:45:43p:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:26:02 -0500, 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. 
> 
> Do:
> 
> # myprog.py
> import mymod
> def dosomething(x):
>    mymod.dosomething(1000)
> 
>>import mymod
> 
> Thisi s the prefered way of doing things.

Yet another thing you can do, if you really want the import * too, is to 
just add 'import mymod' underneath it. This won't add anything but a 
name to the current namespace -- the module's already been initilized.

I wouldn't really reccommend it, but as i'm importing * from GL/GLU/GLUT 
and wx, i also import the modules themselfs so i can get there 
__dicts__, and filter all that crap out of the dictionary I pass to 
pycrust :).

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... :)

Ah.. goin' off on a tanget again...
Z'out

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