Advice on the style to use in imports

[Marco Bizzarri]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>
> importing objects instead of the module (namespace) they live in can cause
> all sorts of aliasing and dependency issues.  avoid unless you know exactly
> what you're doing.
>
> </F>
>

Thanks Fredrik; I understand that is the underlying message of your article.

I'm just confused because PEP8 seems to suggest that the from module
import Class style is acceptable; is there a big "if you know what are
doing" before, which I'm unable to see?

Regards
Marco


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