on writing a while loop for rolling two dice

[Richard Damon]

On 9/7/21 3:51 PM, Avi Gross via Python-list wrote:
> and similarly changes any function imported directly
> to also be fully qualified.

One danger with this is that it can actual change the behavior of the
program. Maybe more likely with global objects than functions, but still
an issue.

Remember, "from module import fun" will bind the name fun in this
modules namespace to the current definiton of the object fun in the
other modules name space. If after that point, something rebinds the
name in the other module, the module that did the from import won't see
that change, but if the reference is changed to module.fun, it will.

Since that rebinding might even be some third module doing a 'monkey
patch', detecting if it is safe is basically impossible.

Admittedly, if this is an issue, the sensitivity to timing makes the
difference something very fussy to exactly the order you do things, the
cases where the difference is intended is likely fairly small.

-- 
Richard Damon