On Apr 14, 12:57 pm, "7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 4:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This also is > > similar to the C++ "using" keyword which exposes the members of a > > namespace to access without specifying the namespace scope for each > > reference. For example after giving "using namespace std;" I can > > change all references to "std::cout" to "cout", which is similar to > > what I am proposing for Python now. > > ...which is a bad practice in C++. When you expose the members of a > namespace, you create the potential for name clashes with the names in > your program. Why would you want to infect Python with that problem?
Oh. James Stroud's recommendation would fix that: > I would favor a convention with leading dots > to disambiguate from other variables. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
