[Python-ideas] Allow imports to a global name

Wed Apr 11 12:42:02 CEST 2012

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>> . FWIW, I'm actually in favour of dropping everything after the
>> "or" in that paragraph from the language spec, since we don't enforce
>> *any* of it. 
>> +1 The restriction seems unnecessary to me.
>> That being said, we should check to make sure that the other
> implementations don't need the restrictions for some reason or other.

Seems to work with Jython:
steve at runes:~$ jython
Jython 2.5.1+ (Release_2_5_1, Aug 4 2010, 07:18:19)
[OpenJDK Client VM (Sun Microsystems Inc.)] on java1.6.0_18
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> def test():
... global math
... import math
...
 >>>
 >>> test()
 >>> math
<type 'org.python.modules.math'>
-- 
Steven