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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:39:36 -0800
From: Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
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Subject: Re: Testing if a global is defined in a module
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* Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> [110704 13:16]:
> >
> > What else can I do here?
> 
> Look at the names in the module's import statements using the `ast`
> module, and exclude those from the set of names defined in the module.
> Won't work for `from foo import *`, but that's bad practice and should
> be refactored anyway.
  I'm completely new to the `ast' module, so I will have to research
  that one. 
  Thanks for the tip
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