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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 15:26:47 -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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* Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> [110704 15:18]:
> 
> You are mistaken. TestAddresses is *not* a member of an imported module. It
> is a member of the current module, which may or may not happen to point to
> the same object as the other module as well.
 You are correct. I mispoke or misapplied. See my last post.
> 
> >    'usingCgi' is the only data variable defined in <targetmodule>
> 
> It seems to me that your approach here is unnecessarily complex and fragile.
> I don't know what problem you are trying to solve, but trying to solve it
> by intraspecting differences that aren't differences is surely the wrong
> way to do it.
  See my last post...
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