[Tutor] Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Weird import problem with PythonIDE on Mac (was 'import problem')

[Max Noel]

On Apr 22, 2005, at 11:41, Chris Smith wrote:

> Do you have a suggestion as to what can I give a module so it has 
> enough information to execute a function that resides in __main__? 
> Here is a visual of what is going on:
>
> ------__main__
> def y1():
>   pass
> import foo
> foo.run(string_from_main) #what should I pass?
>
> ------external module, foo
>
> def run(string_from_main):
> 	#
> 	exec(string_from_main) #y1 is run as if it were in __main__
>
>
> /c

	Python makes it easy to do because functions (and classes) are 
objects. Here:

# in __main__
def y1():
     pass
import foo
foo.run(y1)


# in foo
def run(functionFromMain):
     functionFromMain()


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