How to import all things defined the files in a module directory in __init__.py?

[Peng Yu]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> > [Importing ‘*’ from a module] will also make the names in the code
>> > impossible to automatically match against where they came from.
>> > Explicit is better than implicit; you are proposing to make an
>> > unknown horde of names in the code implicit and untraceable.
>>
>> This will make refactoring easy. If everything is explicit, when one
>> do refactoring, at two places need to be changed which can be a
>> burden.
>
> That's completely backward: Importing ‘*’ from the module makes
> refactoring significantly *more* difficult.
>
> With explicit ‘import foo; foo.lorem()’, an automated tool can know that
> when ‘lorem’ changes to a different name, this module's use of
> ‘foo.lorem’ should also change.

Is there such a good automated tool for python refactoring?

> With non-explicit ‘from foo import *; lorem()’, then an automated too
> has *no way* of knowing that ‘lorem’ should change when you alter that
> name in the ‘foo’ module.
>
> So no, what you say above is the opposite of correct. Instead, using
> star import makes a rename *more* difficult to do correctly.
>
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Regards,
Peng