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Python packaging dependencies

Simple quick question... say I have a self created package called miscfun where some module/script in there looks like...

# helper.py
import re
import os

def foo(x):
    # Do something with re

def bar(x):
    # Do something with os

After setting up a proper setup.py etc.. I can then 'install' my package and load it using

import miscfun.helper

However, what I discovered just now is that I can also call

miscfun.helper.os

or

miscfun.helper.re

to 'use' the re and os modules! Isnt that weird and confusing? Can I somehow prevent this from happening?

(If this is not a normal situation, I'll gladly explain more, but for now I hope this suffices)

Solution

  • Well it's completely normal behaviour of python modules. Once you import anything into your module, you introduce new key in module namespace (which is basically dict as everything in python). And any key in module namespace can be accessed or imported elsewhere as usual.