On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 08:51, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you exaggerating for effect here or would this *actually* just expand to
>
> from datetime import datetime
> default_args = {
> "start_date": datetime(...)
> }
Yes – and of course that is just a snippet, an actual complete script
will have lots of such imports.
The point is that in a scripting situation (especially one in which
you have many small scripts) the
top-level import requirement for simple imports like `datetime`
becomes rather verbose.
Thanks
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