I am learning python and maybe this is obvious but I have not been able to see a solution. What I would like to do is to be able to execute a function within the namespace I would have obtained with from <module> import *
For example if I write: def f(a): return sin(a)+cos(a) I could then do: from math import * f(5) But I have polluted my global namespace with all what's defined in math. I would like to be able to do something like "from math import *" at the f level alone. The main reason for this is the sympy module for CAS (computer algebra). It reimplement a lot of functions and define all the letters as symbolic variables. Writing sympy.<function> everywhere is inconvenient. Importing all the symbols in the global namespace would lead to name clash. It would be nice if I could import all the sympy names but for a given function only. Olive -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list