this is probably silly question, I've seen in this in one of the tutorials: from tkinter import * import tkinter.messagebox given that * implies importing the whole module, why would anyone bother with importing a specific command on top of it?
Yes, you're right. The problem is, when you use the first one, you may cause a 'name pollution' to the current namespace. read this: http://bytebaker.com/2008/07/30/python-namespaces/ cheers, Chao 2011/7/19 Alex Ter-Sarkissov <ater1980@gmail.com>
this is probably silly question, I've seen in this in one of the tutorials:
from tkinter import * import tkinter.messagebox
given that * implies importing the whole module, why would anyone bother with importing a specific command on top of it?
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