__import__ confusion
Justin Ng
justin.ng at NOSPAMdspfactory.com
Tue Feb 25 13:43:54 EST 2003
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:41:04 -0300, Leazen <leazen at uol.com.ar> wrote:
> I'm having some trouble understanding how __import__ works.
> From the docs I read that "from spam.ham import eggs" results in
> "__import__('spam.ham', globals(), locals(), ['eggs'])" rendering the
> later function call 'eggs', what ever that is, but I actually get 'ham'!
It seems to be that in the particular example you're talking about, the
docs state:
"Note that even though locals() and ['eggs'] are passed in as arguments,
the __import__() function does not set the local variable named eggs; this
is done by subsequent code that is generated for the import statement."
The implication from the docs seems to be that __import__ does not mimic
the import statement, but the import statement uses __import__ and
additional code to perform what you expect of it.
Justin Ng
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