Coming from a scripting background where we used to write everything into one script, I'm now going modular with Python. I place related functions in one module, and other functions in other modules.
This all works OK, but I'm a bit confused about importing modules from the standard library. For example, say 3 of my 12 modules use os and os.path. Right now, I have import statements in all 3 modules that import both os and os.path. This seems wrong to me. I read the docs and understand that before loading a module that Python is smart enough to look and see if it's already loaded, so there is no performance issue (it would seem), but I was thinking there is probably a way to load all the modules I need in some orderly fashion without having these multiple import statements in my separate modules. Could someone point me to some docs that explain the Python way of loading modules when breaking old, big (everything in one script) into more manageable modular scripts? Thanks, e4m -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list