Implementation of the global statement

[Greg Ewing]

Mikael Olofsson wrote:

>   Is that behaviour intended?
>   Is it likely to stay that way?


Yes and yes. Consider that when you do

   from A import f

you probably want f to still work properly
even if it calls other functions defined
in A or otherwise relies on things living
in A.

If it didn't work this way, you'd have
to not only import f but all the things
that f relied on as well!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg