Question

As an example, say I have a variable defined where there may be multiple

from __ import *
from ____ import *

etc.

Is there a way to figure out where one of the variables in the namespace is defined?

edit

Thanks, but I already understand that import * is often considered poor form. That wasn’t the question though, and in any case I didn’t write it. It’d just be nice to have a way to find where the variable came from.

Answer 1

This is why it is considered bad form to use from __ import * in python in most cases. Either use from __ import myFunc or else import __ as myLib. Then when you need something from myLib it doesn’t over lap something else.

For help finding things in the current namespace, check out the pprint library, the dir builtin, the locals builtin, and the globals builtin.