The rules of reference

[Mark Jackson]

gerson.kurz at t-online.de (Gerson Kurz) writes:

> Frankly, I'm stunned.

Shouldn't be.  "python a.py" executes the code in file a.py in the
__main__ namespace.  "import a (in b.py)" executes the code in file
a.py in module a's namespace.  Try incanting "python -i a.py" to stay
at the interactive prompt and examining the values of num and
sys.modules['a'].num.

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