Re: Your opinion

From: Philip Austin <paustin_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:19:42 -0700

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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