François Pinard wrote: > [Guido van Rossum] > > >>In a module where you import 'foo' I don't understand why you would >>name a local variable 'foo'. So I'm not sure how the conflict would >>arise. > > > It goes the other way around. First suppose, following an example in > a previous message, that I have a lot of variables named 'text', as this > is kind of the default name everywhere for the text being handled in > a function, in a program handling text. > [lots of hypothetical talk about the addition of the 'text' module]
Seems to me your solution is obvious: import text as somethingelse regartds Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
