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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 06:31:51 -0400
Subject: Re: Flan definition collision
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:28 AM, smahabole--- via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
> I am importing two modules, each of which is defining flags (command line=
 arguments) with the same name. This makes it impossible to import both the=
 modules at once, because of flag name definition conflict. Is there any wa=
y which doesn't involve modifying the flag names in these modules?

Please show relevant code.

  import a
  import b

will not cause a collision as a variable called v would be identified as

  a.v or b.v depending on where it is defined



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