On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
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On Jul 16, 2013, at 07:34 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
On 07/16/2013 07:09 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
I did find it interesting that we *don't* explicitly advise against the use of "import *" for anything other than optional accelerator modules or republishing internal interfaces through a public API, even though we advice against the practice in the tutorial. Perhaps another oversight worth correcting?
+1. 'from foo import *' (from any source other than another module in the same package) is a code stench far worse than anything else PEP8 proscribes.
Maybe we should disable it for anything that isn't at the interactive prompt <0.5 wink>.
Or how about dropping the whole ``from ... import ...`` format entirely? <0.5 wink; seriously, it's implementation is a pain and it has wonky semantics>