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Re: I thought I understood how import worked...

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
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Subject Re: I thought I understood how import worked...
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Date 2012-08-08 14:14 +1000
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Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> writes:

> All of you are saying "two names for the same module", and variations
> thereof. And that is why the doco confuses.
>
> I would expect less confusion if the above example were described as
> _two_ modules, with the same source code.

That's not true though, is it? It's the same module object with two
different references, I thought.

Also, even if what you say were true, “source code” implies the module
was loaded from source code, when Python allows loading modules with no
source code available. So that implication just seems to be inviting
different confusion.

-- 
 \         “I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why |
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Ben Finney

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I thought I understood how import worked... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-07 09:18 -0400
  Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-07 13:52 +0000
    Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-07 08:25 -0700
      Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-07 08:53 -0700
      Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-07 17:54 +0000
    Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2012-08-08 08:47 +1000
      Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-07 19:05 -0400
      Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-08-08 14:14 +1000
        Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-08-08 08:40 +0200
        Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-08 09:12 -0400
        Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2012-08-09 15:52 +1000
  Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-08-07 23:55 +1000
    Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2012-08-07 16:14 +0200
    Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-07 08:32 -0700
      Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-07 13:15 -0400
  Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-07 15:10 +0100
  Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-08-07 12:49 -0400
  Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-07 18:44 +0100
  Re: I thought I understood how import worked... Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-08-08 10:47 +0200

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