[Python-ideas] Allow from foo import bar*

[Nick Coghlan]

On 4 Oct 2013 06:01, "Joshua Landau" <joshua at landau.ws> wrote:
>
> On 3 October 2013 19:43, Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hm. Why not just use "import socket" and then use
"socket.AF_<whatever>"?
> >
> > That's what I usually do as well (because explicit is better than
implicit)
> > but from my understanding when it comes to constants it is generally not
> > considered a bad practice to import them directly into the module
namespace.
> > I guess my specific case is bit different though.
> > I have all these constants defined in a _linux.py submodule which I
import
> > from __init__.py in order to expose them publicly.
> > And this is how I do that:
> >
> >     # Linux >= 2.6.36
> >     if _psplatform.HAS_PRLIMIT:
> >         from psutil._pslinux import (RLIM_INFINITY, RLIMIT_AS,
RLIMIT_CORE,
> >                                      RLIMIT_CPU, RLIMIT_DATA,
RLIMIT_FSIZE,
> >                                      RLIMIT_LOCKS, RLIMIT_MEMLOCK,
> ...
> >
> > In *this specific case* a "from _psplatform import RLIM*" would have
solved
> > my problem nicely.
>
> Or we change the module such that we can do
>
>     from psutil._pslinux import RLIMIT
>
> and then use RLIMIT.CORE, RLIMIT.CPU, RLIMIT.LOCKS, etc.

Another Enum candidate, perhaps?

Cheers,
Nick.

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