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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: surprising behaviour of global dictionaries
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:53:15 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2012-10-09, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:

> Welcome to python -- this is a trap every newbie falls into ;)
>
> Seriously, you shouldn't use the main script as a library;

There must be something wrong with me.  It never even occurred to me
to try to import a file from within that same file.  I don't think
I've ever even heard of that before...

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