Re: Your opinion

There are lots of cases where "from xxx import *" causes name conflicts,
which is why it's generally discouraged. It's really not that hard
to prepend the Ngl. , especially if the redundant ngl_ prefix is taken
off.

Note that it's also possible to change the way the module
is referenced by using "import Ngl as xxx"

On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 05:19 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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