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Re: Importing Definitions

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On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> Lets say I have some definitions in a module1.py e.g.
>
> import sys
> A,B,C,D,E = range(5)
> def method1():
> more code
> end
>
> Then a second module module2.py where I wish to use these definitions
> import module1.py
> print A
>
> This will throw an error saying "global name 'A' is not defined."
>
> Now I know if there was a method I wanted to reference I could do something like this in module2.
> from module1 import method1
>
> which would mean from that point on I could just reference it as method1 rather than module1.method1, is there such a way I could do this with definitions??

You can! Any name will work, functions aren't special.

from module1 import method1, A, B, C, D, E

If you want all of them at once, you may want:

from module1 import *

but this can make your code confusing.

ChrisA

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Importing Definitions Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-09-05 05:39 -0700
  Re: Importing Definitions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-05 22:50 +1000
    Re: Importing Definitions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-05 17:28 +0000
      Re: Importing Definitions Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-09-05 13:06 -0500
      Re: Importing Definitions Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-09-06 11:05 +0100
  Re: Importing Definitions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-09-05 15:00 +0200
  Re: Importing Definitions Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-09-05 05:56 -0700
  Re: Importing Definitions Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-09-06 02:10 -0700

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