Re: Identifying exceptions

Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Tue, 07 Mar 1995 17:46:37 +0100

> > Are there other, better solutions?
> D) If you really can't stand using module identifiers all the time
>
> import socket
> import struct
> from socket import *
> from struct import *
>
> Now you can use either unqualified or qualified names, as you see fit.

Oops! the socket module defines a function 'socket', so the statement
"from socket import *" redefines the name socket, and "socket.error"
won't work :-(

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