On 2/29/2016 7:42 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
Is import needed at all when trying out in Idle?
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So it does appear that
1. import not necessary with(in) idle
2. However import and f5 (ie is run as main) are different
May some idle experts elaborate on this? Whats the idle idiom of import-ing?
Rustom, since I know that you are not a rank beginner, I have trouble
understanding what you are asking. F5 when editing foo.py is equivalent
to running "python -i foo.py" on a command line while 'in' the directory
containing foo.py. In both cases, foo.py is run as a main module, with
__name__ == '__main__'. The difference is that F5 runs foo.py under
IDLE supervision, with results going into and interactive inputs coming
from IDLE shell instead of the console interpreter.
Imports are used in a module to access objects within the imported module.
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