Brendan Moloney wrote:
We all know that doing:
from pkg import *
is bad because it obliterates the 'pkg' namespace. So why not allow something
like:
I don't quite know what you mean by obliterating the pkg namespace, but
if my guess is correct, you're wrong. One of the problems with import *
is that it (potentially) obliterates the caller's namespace, not pkg.
That is, if you have a function spam(), and you do "from module import
*", and module also has spam(), it blows away your function. The pkg
namespace isn't touched -- it's just unavailable to the caller.
>> import pkg.*
This would still be helpful for interactive sessions while keeping namespaces
around.
I don't understand what the difference between that and just "import
pkg" would be.
By the way, this sort of question should probably go to the python-ideas
mailing list for any extended discussion.
--
Steven
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