Inclusion Guards Necessary?

[Kamilche]

Are inclusion guards necessary to prevent multiple modules from
importing the same shared module multiple times?

--Kamilche

 

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Are inclusion guards necessary to prevent multiple modules from
importing the same shared module multiple times?

No, multiple imports of a python module just do a lookup and return the
same module object as was returned by the previous import.

HTH,
Mike


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Mike C. Fletcher
Designer, VR Plumber, Coder
http://members.rogers.com/mcfletch/
blog: http://zope.vex.net/~mcfletch/plumbing/

 

[Kamilche]

No, multiple imports of a python module just do a lookup and return the
same module object as was returned by the previous import.

Thanks!