Importing again and again

[John Bokma]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> 
> "John Bokma" <john at castleamber.com> wrote in message 
> news:Xns97DCA4EEBEBEEcastleamber at 130.133.1.4...
>>> def foo():
>>>     import bar
>>>     bar.printStuff()
>> I am new to Python so this might be a weird question, but it there a
>> reason why you import bar inside foo?
> 
> Two possible reasons:
> 1) delay import until actually needed, if ever.
> 2) put 'bar' into the function local namespace instead of the module
> global namespace

OK clear and thanks. I was guessing the later, and the first one I 
overlooked (Perl works different, you have to do the delay yourself).

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