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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-10-22 20:31:22 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-10-22 20:31:22 (GMT)
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Modify example to use string methods instead of the string module.
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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
a non-empty \var{fromlist} argument is given, the module named by
\var{name} is returned. This is done for compatibility with the
bytecode generated for the different kinds of import statement; when
- using \samp{import spam.ham.eggs}, the top-level package \code{spam}
+ using \samp{import spam.ham.eggs}, the top-level package \module{spam}
must be placed in the importing namespace, but when using \samp{from
spam.ham import eggs}, the \code{spam.ham} subpackage must be used
to find the \code{eggs} variable. As a workaround for this
@@ -45,11 +45,9 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
components. For example, you could define the following helper:
\begin{verbatim}
-import string
-
def my_import(name):
mod = __import__(name)
- components = string.split(name, '.')
+ components = name.split('.')
for comp in components[1:]:
mod = getattr(mod, comp)
return mod