On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 12:49:19PM +0100, Vlad Niculae wrote: > Personally I'd rather be a bit frustrated but have tab completion and > pyflakes warnings. I avoid using star imports even in hackish scripts. > I assume the warning will create unnecessary confusion when people > learn to use the star import first. These users will probably feel > that the warning is a scikit-learn bug, or just completely ignore it > (users don't read warnings), instead of changing their style.
+1. "Import *" is a really really bad habit. And hacked up interactive environments (with crazy start up scripts) make it really hard to teach, because beginners don't make the difference between a hack and Python proper and find that Python is not very systematic in what it does. Gaël ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
