[Tutor] (getch() equivalent) [fun with imports]

[Erik Price]

On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 02:11  AM, Danny Yoo wrote:

> Just as local variables are visible only with the enclosing function,
> local module imports are treated with the same rule.  Doing 'import'
> within a function very unusual: it's not often useful to localize a 
> module
> to a single function, since it's probably going to be used everywhere 
> in a
> program.

Is there a significant performance hit when importing a module twice in 
this fashion?  Or does the Python processor keep all of the imported 
objects cached in memory so that if it is imported a second time, even 
in a separate namespace, a module will not be searched for and loaded 
again?


Erik





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