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You could use `from some_module import some_func` to get the same effect as some_func will be in the local namespace.

• Cyphase 10y ago
  That's what the top-level commenter was doing.
  • fnord123 10y ago
    Ok. It wasn't clear what "importing it locally" meant. I've worked with some people who would use that phrase to mean "copy paste it into the local file".
    • Cyphase 10y ago
      Fair point :P. I think I might have seen someone mean it like that as well in the past.
  • masklinn 10y ago
    And a common stdlib trick is to bind these via function arguments e.g. def foo(a, b, thing=util.thing): ...