Re: Re: re-symboling an object

Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:40:12 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> any comments on having a simple way of re-symboling an object?
>> 
>> examples;
>> 
>> #  to simplify reusing code in other languages
>> 
>> import foreign.library.chien as local.dog with sit as reposez-vous  
>
>I don't understand what that statement does.  Why can't you just do "from
>foreign.library.chien import sit as reposez_vous" ?  (Hyphens are not
>allowed in a variable name).
>

that imports the "chien" object? but it doesn't rename it.
i'd of thought it just imported "sit" and called it "reposez_vous"

what i had intended was to import chien, change its name, and any or all of its contents at once.


>> # or to help fit an interface, 
>> 
>> import file with readline as next_   # to make file an iterator
>
>You can do "from file import readline as File.next_".  That would do what
>you want.
>

yes, if file gets imported too.
but wouldn't you have to repeat it for every symbol you wanted renaming?

>> ( of course file is now built-in, which i'm not sure is a good idea, but thats another story.)
>
>You can override File whether it is a built-in or not. Declaring a local
>File object will shadow the built-in File.
>
    
shaddowing isn't the point if you want a different name, file might mean something different in some language.

>  Being a built-in just means it is already loaded.  

does that mean you could stop it being loaded?


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