On 2023-03-30, Thomas Passin <li...@tompassin.net> wrote: > On 3/30/2023 5:15 AM, Andreas Eisele wrote:
>> [...] I was unpleasantly surprised that math.pow() does not have >> this feature, hence "from math import *" overwrites the built-in >> pow() function with a function that lacks functionality. [...] > > Not an answer to your question, but it's better not to use "import *". > It's usually better to import just the names you actually need. Or to imporot math and then use math.pow(). Unfortunately, the official Python documentation always seems to assume you do "from <whatever> import *". I think that leads people to believe it's a good practice when, in fact, it's a frequent source of trouble as the OP found out. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
