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Re: I think I found a mistake in the official language reference documentation -- or I am missing somethig???

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On 27 abr, 21:29, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 27/04/2011 21:02, Igor Soares wrote:
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> > Reading the section "6.11. The import statement"
> >http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-import-st...
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> > I found:
> > """
> > Import statements are executed in two steps: (1) find a module, and
> > initialize it if necessary; (2) define a name or names in the local
> > namespace (of the scope where the import statement occurs).
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> > The first form (without from) repeats these steps for each identifier
> > in the list. The form with from performs step (1) once, and then
> > performs step (2) repeatedly.
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> > In the last sentence, isn't it the opposite?
> > With the "from" form it would find/initialize all the modules and
> > define just the name after "from".
> > Or am I missing something?????
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> The "from" form is like:
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>      from monty import spam, eggs
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> 1. find module "monty", and initialize it if necessary
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> 2. define name "spam" in the local namespace
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> 3. define name "eggs" in the local namespace
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> Also note that the name "monty" itself never enters the local namespace.

My mistake...
I got confused with wrong code in IDLE...
I also didn't understand that section ( 6.11 ) at first

Thank you guys for the help

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I think I found a mistake in the official language reference documentation -- or I am missing somethig??? Igor Soares <ibp.srs@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 13:02 -0700
  Re: I think I found a mistake in the official language reference documentation -- or I am missing somethig??? Ken Watford <kwatford+python@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 17:21 -0400
    Re: I think I found a mistake in the official language reference documentation -- or I am missing somethig??? Igor Soares <ibp.srs@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 15:36 -0700
  Re: I think I found a mistake in the official language reference documentation -- or I am missing somethig??? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-04-28 01:29 +0100
    Re: I think I found a mistake in the official language reference documentation -- or I am missing somethig??? Igor Soares <ibp.srs@gmail.com> - 2011-04-28 11:00 -0700

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