indirect import of standard module

[Ben Finney]

"BartlebyScrivener" <rpdooling at gmail.com> writes:

> >> More accurately, it *does* import it twice, into two separate
> >> namespaces;
> 
> If it's in two different namespaces, how can they have the same id
> number?

That "two different namespaces" might be a bit inaccurate.

There is only one object representing the module, which is created the
first time it is imported. That object has a unique id.

There can be any number of names referring to that module object, in
different parts of the namespace.

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Ben Finney