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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:
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>> 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>.