PEP: possibility of inline using of a symbol instead of "import"

[Robert Kern]

On 1/6/11 12:43 PM, Erwin Mueller wrote:
> On Thursday 06 January 2011 16:28:49 dmitrey wrote:
>> hi all,
>> I have th PEP (I'm not sure something like that hadn't been proposed
>> although):
>> very often in a Python file header the following lines are present,
>> like:
>> from MyModule1 import myFunc1
>> import MyModule2 as mm2
>> from MyModule3 import myFunc3 as mf3
>> etc
>>
>> and after several pages of code they are using somewhere, maybe only
>> one time, e.g.
>> r1 = myFunc1(...)
>> r2 = mm2.myFunc2(...)
>> r3 = mf3(...)
>> It makes programs less clear, you have to scroll several pages of code
>> in IDE to understand what it refers to.
>>
>> Regards, D.
>
> Why you have several pages of code in the first place? Don't you know that you
> can split your code in files? Just a suggestion.

Modules *should* have several pages of code. *Functions* should be limited to 
about a page of code at maximum.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  an underlying truth."
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