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On 06/15/2015 06:19 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Setting a global on the module (which I may not have, and probably
> didn't, import) for only one function is overkill.

What do you mean?  Even if you pull in just one function from the
module on an import, the module's initialization code still runs.