Inclusion Guards Necessary?

Mike C. Fletcher mcfletch at rogers.com
Wed May 26 16:01:36 EDT 2004


Kamilche wrote:

>Are inclusion guards necessary to prevent multiple modules from
>importing the same shared module multiple times?
>  
>
No, multiple imports of a python module just do a lookup and return the 
same module object as was returned by the previous import.

HTH,
Mike

 
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