On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Michael Foord <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk">fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 10/11/2010 15:48, R. David Murray wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I think Tres was referring to certain packages (which shall remain<br>
nameless since I don't feel like googling to find one) whose<br>
documentation recommends the 'from<me> import *' methodology.<br>
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Contenders include popular libraries like fabric and django:<br>
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<a href="http://docs.fabfile.org/0.9.2/usage/fabfiles.html" target="_blank">http://docs.fabfile.org/0.9.2/usage/fabfiles.html</a><br>
<a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/intro/tutorial03/" target="_blank">http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/intro/tutorial03/</a><br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>That is one very specific module in Django that gets imported that way, it is not a general pattern recommended by Django. For every other Django module besides that one you will see specific imports being used in the doc.<br>
<br>Karen <br></div></div>