[Python-Dev] Re: LOAD_NAME & classes (original) (raw)

Michael Gilfix mgilfix@eecs.tufts.edu
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:37:23 -0400

On Tue, Apr 23 @ 17:45, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'm not sure that every possible handy coding tip deserves to be in the documentation. There ought to be (and are!) plenty of other introductory texts that can serve this purpose.

Also, in this particular case, the question ("how do I share data between modules") and the answer ("put it in a module and import it") seems pretty obvious once you have a decent grip of module semantics.

I agree now as well. I wouldn't have when I started though. At the time I wondered if I had committed a stylistic sin because it didn't feel "right".

           -- Mike

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