"Mark Young" <marky1...@gmail.com> wrote
Thanks everybody, I didn't know modules ran code when you imported them,
I
just thought they defined the functions, etc. in them.
They do that too.
But in Python a function definition is created by running the code!
So you write
def foo():
return 42
To define foo you need to execute those two lines of code.
The result is that you create a function object.
So when you import a moduile it runs all of the code in there, and
most of the code usually consists of function and variable definitions.
But it can be anything at all.
HTH,
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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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