It was mostly an exercise in understanding import orders/precedence but I thought I might be able to use it to simplify imports for modules within a package that might all use the same or similar standard imports. The one I see a lot of is modules in the package routinely importing os and sys so I thought that if I could just import them once at the highest package level then just have the modules import their parent package, things would be cleaner. You make a good point about that causing more confusion than it's worth though, so I'll shelve that idea for the time being.
Funny though that I did try using something like foo.datetime but I must have buggered up something cause I couldn't get it to work... Thanks Kent! On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Rob Kirkpatrick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've googled a bit and tried some things on my own, but can't seem to > > determine if it's possible to declare some standard library imports in > one > > package/module then import that package/module somewhere else and reap > the > > benefit of those initial imports. > > > > For example, if I have a setup like this: > > > > foo > > __init__.py > > bar > > __init__.py > > hello.py > > > > Could I put "import datetime" in foo's __init__.py and do an import of > foo > > from hello.py and start using datetime in hello.py without importing > > datetime specifically in hello.py? > > Yes but it will be foo.datetime. The 'import datetime' in > foo.__init__.py binds the name datetime in foo's module namespace. > > > All the examples I see import all the > > necessary standard library mods in the script/module that specifically > uses > > them so either what I want to do is not possible or a bad idea. > Thoughts? > > Why do this? For clarity, import the modules you need in the modules > that need them. > import foo > foo.datetime... > is just obscure IMO. > > Kent >
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