On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Eric Wertman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I read the PEP8 and the "importing Python Modules" article. However, >> I'm still a little confused on what should the general rules for >> importing modules. >> >> I'm showing what I used in my current project, and will accept your >> advices on how I should change them. > >> import module >> >> and then use >> >> module.MyClass >> >> ( in case of a flat module) >> >> or >> >> from package.subpackage import module >> >> and then use >> >> module.MyClass >> >> (( for a package/subpackage structure )) > > My opinion is that this is the preffered way, generally speaking. Not > only does it avoid namespace issues as effbot pointed out, but it also > makes code easier to read later. As examples, I tend to break those > rules frequently with these : > > from pprint import pprint # Because pprint.pprint is just redundant > from lxml import etree # Actually I guess this doesn't break the rule. > from datetime import datetime # This might be a bad idea... I haven't > had problems yet though. datetime.datetime gets on my nerves though. > > just my .02 > > Eric > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Thanks Eric; your 02 cents are worthy for me ;) Regards Marco -- Marco Bizzarri http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ http://notenotturne.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
