On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, DL Neil via Python-list wrote:
My personal approach is to follow 'the Zen of Python' and prefer "explicit" over "implicit". (it helps beginners, as well as us old-fogies whose minds cannot retain things for very long)
DL, That was my original approach.
I see little point in importing 'stuff' that's not used.
Agree.
Hoping this non-answer helps, by leaving you with reading topics which will realise advice for the concerns you had/hadn't noted to-date.
Actually, it's a very good answer. I'm not a professional coder. I'm an environmental consultant and I use a variety of tools depending on the project's requirements. Most every day I'm in emacs. use LyX for almost all writing, R and GRASS for data analyses, SQL for database work, awk, sed, shell scripts, and python as required. This means I'm constantly relearning what I forgot since the last time. This has worked well for me for almost 30 years so I'm not complaining. But now I am adding GUIs and other Real Application(TM) bits to postgres applications I run from the command line for my own use so I can give these tools to others who might benefit from them. The last database-backend application I wrote in python2 and wxPython was more than a decade ago. Now I'm working exclusively with Python3 and learning tkinter. I've much to learn. ;-) Thanks for the complete explanation and I hope your dinner didn't burn on the grill. Regards, Rich -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
