>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Chaplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> Matplotlib does use a lot of relative imports which I think
Steve> is bad style.
Steve> See PEP 8 "Style Guide for Python Code"
Steve> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Steve> - Relative imports for intra-package imports are highly
Steve> discouraged. Always use the absolute package path for all
Steve> imports. Even now that PEP 328 [7] is fully implemented in
Steve> Python 2.5, its style of explicit relative imports is
Steve> actively discouraged; absolute imports are more portable
Steve> and usually more readable.
I have never run into a problem with relative imports, though I don't
object to removing them. Why are they bad style and what is the danger?
Steve> There was a recent "Coding Guide" thread on this list
Steve> (which I admit I just skimmed through). Instead of
Steve> reinventing the wheel, how about stating at the top of
Steve> CODING_GUIDE that PEP 8 is the default style for
Steve> matplotlib, and the following notes give in-depth
Steve> matplotlib examples (or possibly override PEP 8 if
Steve> necessary).
Agreed -- I'll update the coding style section to refer to this
document, and provide a few comments in line.
JDH
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