Ethan Furman wrote:
The strongest reason for not doing this is that it pollutes the current namespace, not that it obliterates the 'pkg' namespace.
Sorry, I phrased that badly. When I said "obliterates the 'pkg' namespace" I was referring to dumping the 'pkg' namespace into the current namespace (polluting it, as you would say).
How would that be different from --> import pkg
Because that does not import all of the (public) modules and packages under 'pkg'. For example scipy has has a subpackage 'linalg'. If I just do 'import scipy' then I can not refer to 'scipy.linalg' until I do 'import scipy.linalg'.
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
By the way, this sort of question should probably go to the python-ideas mailing list for any extended discussion.
Sorry, didn't realize that would be the more appropriate list.
Thanks, Brendan