Newbie question - calling external Python programs

[Olaf Delgado]

thor at localhost.localdomain (Manuel Gutierrez Algaba) writes:

> On Sat, <stephen_ferg at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> [...about imports. Civilised ways of importing lot of modules...]
> 
> Well, python is so damned advanced that you can  import a module
> whenever you want to. You can import :
> 
> - inside a function:
[...]

Indeed, modules are just ordinary data objects, so you can shuffle them
around, give them dirty names (AKA assignment) und get rid of them via the
'del' statement. The latter should actually release their memory, as far as
I know and came to understand the way Python operates.

> Doing the similar thing in C++ or Java is , how would I say?,
> f*ckingly impossible.

'utterly' is the word you were looking for. :)

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