On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 14:10 +0100, Jonathan Lange wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jeroen Vermeulen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2010-08-19 18:38, Jonathan Lange wrote: > > > >> Neither annoys me. What annoys me is getting conflicts from Bazaar for > >> changes where there is no *actual* conflict, or having to actually use > >> my brain to handle something so mindnumbingly trivial as finding and > >> adding imports. Computers should be able to do that for me. > > > > This came up over lunch today. Stuart joked: why write imports at all? We > > could look them up automatically. > > > > But does that have to be a joke? Couldn't we generate imports (well, those > > from other Launchpad modules) automatically during branch build? > ... > > I would much rather use editor tools than a preprocessor. Once we > introduce a mandatory preprocessing stage, we are no longer writing > Python code. Editor tools provide much the same convenience, but leave > us still writing standard Python.
We would also lose the ability to use in-editor pyflakes to find undefined names. It's true we wouldn't need it for missing imports anymore, but that's not the only source of undefined names. -- Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>
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