[Tutor] import statements in functions?

[Sean Perry]

Marcus Goldfish wrote:
> Is there a convention to be considered for deciding if import
> statements should be included in a function body?  For example, which
> of these two module layouts would be preferable:
> 

imports are cached. So once it is imported, it stays imported.


> The reason I consider the second form is that the module foo_special
> is only used by the code in specialFunction(), and detracts (IMHO)
> from understanding the rest of the code in the module.
> 

and this is a good reason why you would perform the import inside the 
function.