On Aug 6, 9:06 am, "Patrick Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading through the Python tutorial, I got to section 6.4.1, > "Importing * From a Package", which states: > > "If __all__ is not defined, the statement from Sound.Effects import * > does not import all submodules from the package Sound.Effects into the > current namespace; ..." > > It then goes on to state: > > "[It] imports whatever names are defined in the package [including] > any submodules of the package that were explicitly loaded by previous > import statements." > > I am curious to learn the rationale for this behavior, since it just > caught me by surprise (hence the reason I was pouring over the > tutorial document in such detail :-)) > > Thus far, everything in Python has seemed very intuitive to me, > however the behavior of "from package import *" baffles me. > > So I figured I'd ask -- why does Python behave this way. > > (And now, I'm going to do some code cleanup :-)) > > --wpd
The only module I know of that most people tell you to do a "from x import *" is Tkinter. I think that's pretty dumb myself. If you don't want to type some module's name out, then do something like "import Tkinter as tk". Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
