Useful Module Tricks


Dual function module--import or stand-alone program
if __name__ == '__main__':
    runTests()

Modules can be reloaded "on-the-fly"
reload(myModule)

Module namespace is inspectable
>>> import string
>>> dir(string)

['_StringType', '__builtins__', '__doc__',
.
.
.
'uppercase', 'whitespace', 'zfill']