Maintainability (was Re: Stackless & String-processing)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <001101bed3f2$5e8874a0$642d2399 at tim>,
Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>
>That's fine for a one-man show.  "Maintainability" in my life cuts across
>programmers, and it's Not Good for each person to reinvent their own basic
>machinery -- even to have the ability to do so.  One reason I like Python is
>that it *doesn't* let the jerk down the hall invent their own control
>structures <0.5 wink>.

Yup.  Today I had to lay down the law to our programming team: use of
the construct "from foo import *" is now expressly, explicitly, and
completely forbidden.  "from foo import bar" is deprecated; "from foo
import foo" is acceptable; and "import foo" is strongly preferred.

I'd be in favor of getting "from foo import *" entirely out of the
language, but I suspect it's just too convenient for short hacks.
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