[reportlab-users] Two Generic Questions

[Ben Finney]

Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:


> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Tim Roberts wrote:

> > [Avoiding "import everything from foo" is] just good Python

> > practice.  Almost any time you see this:

> >

> >    from anothermodule import *

> >

> > it is a bad practice.

> 

>   Hmmm-m-m. There seems to be nothing wrong with

> 	import wx

> or

> 	import matplotlib

> 

> but, I'll accept your explanation, Tim.


Those are fundamentally different; they're not "import everything from
foo", as your original post was asking about, but instead are "import
foo as-is in its own namespace". That makes all the difference, since
in the latter case it will still be clear where names come from when
reading the code.

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Ben Finney