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changeset 83486:9df9931fae96 3.3
#15575: Clarify tutorial description of when modules are executed. [#15575]
| R David Murray rdmurray@bitdance.com | |
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| date | Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:58:36 -0400 |
| parents | 5b6ccab52a4d |
| children | dac847938326 d03784713786 |
| files | Doc/tutorial/modules.rst |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)[+] [-] Doc/tutorial/modules.rst 3 |
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--- a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst @@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ More on Modules A module can contain executable statements as well as function definitions. These statements are intended to initialize the module. They are executed only -the first time the module is imported somewhere. [#] +the first time the module name is encountered in an import statement. [#] +(They are also run if the file is executed as a script.) Each module has its own private symbol table, which is used as the global symbol table by all functions defined in the module. Thus, the author of a module can