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Importing Objects From Modules Into The Main Namespace: Python Scientific Lecture Notes, Release 2012.3 (Euroscipy 2012)

The document discusses Python module loading and reuse. It shows how to import specific functions from a module into the main namespace. It also demonstrates that modifying an imported module will not update the cached version unless reloaded. The document further explains that code in a file is only executed when run as the main file and not when imported, using the __name__ == '__main__' check.

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Importing Objects From Modules Into The Main Namespace: Python Scientific Lecture Notes, Release 2012.3 (Euroscipy 2012)

The document discusses Python module loading and reuse. It shows how to import specific functions from a module into the main namespace. It also demonstrates that modifying an imported module will not update the cached version unless reloaded. The document further explains that code in a file is only executed when run as the main file and not when imported, using the __name__ == '__main__' check.

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Python Scientific lecture notes, Release 2012.

3 (EuroScipy 2012)

In [8]: demo.
demo.__builtins__ demo.__init__ demo.__str__
demo.__class__ demo.__name__ demo.__subclasshook__
demo.__delattr__ demo.__new__ demo.c
demo.__dict__ demo.__package__ demo.d
demo.__doc__ demo.__reduce__ demo.print_a
demo.__file__ demo.__reduce_ex__ demo.print_b
demo.__format__ demo.__repr__ demo.py
demo.__getattribute__ demo.__setattr__ demo.pyc
demo.__hash__ demo.__sizeof__

Importing objects from modules into the main namespace


In [9]: from demo import print_a, print_b

In [10]: whos
Variable Type Data/Info
--------------------------------
demo module <module ’demo’ from ’demo.py’>
print_a function <function print_a at 0xb7421534>
print_b function <function print_b at 0xb74214c4>

In [11]: print_a()
a

Warning: Module caching


Modules are cached: if you modify demo.py and re-import it in the old session, you will get the
old one.
Solution:

In [10]: reload(demo)

2.6.4 ‘__main__’ and module loading

File demo2.py:
import sys

def print_a():
"Prints a."
print ’a’

print sys.argv

if __name__ == ’__main__’:
print_a()

Importing it:
In [11]: import demo2
b

In [12]: import demo2

Running it:
In [13]: %run demo2
b
a

2.6. Reusing code: scripts and modules 28

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