[Tutor] what is the basic difference
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Tue Feb 7 01:17:32 CET 2012
On 06/02/12 19:12, Debashish Saha wrote:
> what is the basic difference between the commands
> import pylab as *
Are you sure you don't mean
from pylab import *
???
The other form won't work because * is not a valid name in Python.
You should ghet a syntax error.
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
This is just an abbreviation to save typing matplotlib.pyplot
in front of every reference to the module names.
> import numpy as np
as above
> import numpy as *
again an error.
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