Another try at Python's selfishness

[Alex Martelli]

Magnus Lycka <lycka at carmen.se> wrote:
   ...
> which isn't needed at all. So far, the existence of x.y somewhere
> in Python always implied that x was already introduced explicitly
> in the program, and you suggest that we violate that both in the

Almost... import (and from) statements are exceptions to this.

import x.y

binds or rebinds name x "on the fly", as well as attribute y of x.


Alex