kevin parks wrote: > so let's say i have a script called foo.py. > foo.py uses some things from the random module and therefore has > > import random > import kp > import sys > import time > > etc. & co. in it > > but foo.py also imports a module kp which also > happens to import random. > > Should i only be importing random once or are you saying it > is just fine to import a module that imports another module that > you actually have already imported.
It's fine. Each module that needs to use random (for example) should import it. Only the first import to be executed has any appreciable cost; the subsequent ones just put a reference to the already-loaded and cached module into the current module namespace. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
