indirect import of standard module

[Ben Finney]

"alisonken1" <alisonken1 at gmail.com> writes:

> Unless you override some of os.* functions in foo, you want to
> import os into foo and bar separately.
> 
> Python does not reimport the module a second time (create a second
> instance of os)

More accurately, it *does* import it twice, into two separate
namespaces; but loads and executes the code only the first time.

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Ben Finney