[Fred L. Drake, Jr., on import *]
> If Guido will back off on saying that it's acceptable to use it that
> way, I can assure you the docs will be corrected. But if he's still
> advocating that usage (silly Dutchman), I don't think I should touch
> it.
> Even if it is silly.
Guido never advocates it, but you're not going to get him to say it's Evil
either. The thing is, an intelligent adult can use import-* profitably and
safely, in the handful of cases an intelligent adult realizes it's
profitable and safe to do so <wink>.
When Jeremy played w/ "import *"-inside-functions wngs, most popped up in
Guido's code. This was most often
from Tkinter import *
in a module's _test() function, where doing so was handy amd harmless.
I never use it myself -- but then I never write Tkinter code, and "stat" is
some Unix abomination <wink>.
It couldn't hurt to add an "intelligent adult" warning to the docs! I
suggest an icon showing a refined English lady trying hard not to notice a
West Virginian next to her picking his nose.
perfect-images-are-too-rare-to-pass-up-ly y'rs - tim
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