On 1/9/2017 11:48 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I would focus on changing habits to discourage "import *" rather than
The tkinter doc still has ...to use Tkinter all you need is a simple import statement: import tkinter Or, more often: from tkinter import * Should this be changed?
uglifying all new code with this "os as _os" pattern. Very occasionally one designs a module to explicitly support "import *", and that usually entails using __all__ (like it or not), making the problem go away without uglifying the code.
tkinter does not have have __all__. It would have 160 (in 3.6) minus at least 3 (for enum, re, and sys) entries.
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