Re: Your opinion

From: Derrick Snowden <Derrick.Snowden_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:40:33 -0400

I agree with Phillip. It is especially tough to debug for new python coders.
I wish they never allowed this in the first place.

-Derrick

On Thu September 23 2004 06:19 pm, Philip Austin wrote:
> fred writes:
> > Implementing this change would pretty much preclude ever using
> > the "from Ngl import *" form, since there would now be lots of
> > possible name clashes, like "end", "contour", etc.
> >
> > We would like to do this, but would making this change at this time
> > be too disruptive?
>
> I'm strongly in favor of the proposed change --- "from xxx import *"
> is the cause of many queries to the python newsgroup; I think
> most Python coders consider it a near-cardinal sin in
> production code -- regards, Phil
>
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