Creating classes and objects more than once?

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Viktor Kerkez <alefnula at gmail.com> writes:

> Here is the situation:
>
> $ ls
> test
> $ cd test
> $ ls
> __init__.py data.py
> $ cat __init__.py
>
> $ cat data.py
> DATA = {}
>
> $ cd ..
> $ python
>>>> import os
>>>> from test.data import DATA
>>>> DATA['something'] = 33
>>>> os.chdir('test')
>>>> from data import DATA as NEW_DATA
>>>> DATA
> {'something': 33}
>>>> NEW_DATA
> {}
>
>
> Is this a bug?

No.  It's one of the compelling features of Python modules.

-- 
Arnaud