pythonic way to optimize access to imported value?

[Greg Ewing]

Neal Norwitz wrote:

> You can *kinda* do this with 2.1 (at least) and up:
> 
> 	>>> import math
> 	>>> def foo(): return foo.pi
> 	... 
> 	>>> foo.pi = math.pi
> 	>>> foo()
> 	3.1415926535897931


But that defeats the purpose, which presumably was to
avoid a global name lookup!

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
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