[Tutor] Question about namespace

[ahimsa]

Hi

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Guido van Rossum defines namespace as a "mapping from names to objects"=20
(Tutorial - Python 2.2.2 :S.9.2 p 54). Would I be correct to think of thi=
s as=20
- in Linux-speak - making a symlink that creates a symlink (or=20
'shortcut'/link) between the local reference (the link) and the module or=
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function itself (the 'target') which 'resides' elsewhere (i.e. has a glob=
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scope)? Hence assignment and deletion only add/remove references to that=20
module/function rather than copy/destroy the module/function itself. Does=
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this similie work? If not, what would be a more appropriate one?

Cheers

Andy

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