Help with threading

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Thu Oct 19 14:52:27 EDT 2000


In article <ggHH5.14636$oD.324689 at news6-win.server.ntlworld.com>,
Tom wright <thomas.wright1 at ntlworld.REMOVETHIS.com> wrote:
>
>An alternative here is to use from modulename import *, then you can use var
>= classname instead of var = modulename.classname, ah well live and learn.

That's a Bad Idea.  It pollutes your namespace (at my last company, I
made it a hanging offense to use "from foo import *").  At the very
least, make sure to explicitly name each bit that you're importing, so
you can debug it later (e.g. "from foo import bar").
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