In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Sakkis
wrote:
> While we're at it, although it's not strictly a naming convention
> issue I still waste brain cycles on where to put the import statements
> that are used only once or twice in a module. Should
> (1) all imports be at the global scope at the top of the module, or
> (2) be imported in the function or method they are actually used ?
>
> […]
>
> Reasons for (2)
> ---------------
> - Point of import closer to point of use; easy to notice if a given
> import is not used any more after refactoring.
`pylint` reports unused imported names. I don't follow PEP8 only if it's
not possible otherwise. But cyclic imports are bad anyway. :-)
And if the import is *really* expensive and only needed in some special
circumstances.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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