Creating classes and objects more than once?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Viktor Kerkez wrote:

> 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. You create an alias NEW_DATA in your local scope, but that alias still
points to the same object, a dictionary.

Diez