On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 22:50:35 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Azureaus <lo0...@my.bristol.ac.uk> > wrote:
>> 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 Better practice is to use: import module1 print module1.A print module2.B and so forth since that makes it far more clear what you are doing and where they come from. But it's not compulsory. > If you want all of them at once, you may want: > > from module1 import * > > but this can make your code confusing. Shame on you Chris :-) Don't teach newbies to set their head on fire before teaching them where the fire extinguisher is. Azureaus, don't use the form "from module import *" unless you really need to, and as a beginner, you almost never really need to. (And as an expert, you will really need to even less!) -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
