Phil <phil...@gmail.com> writes:
> I was thinking that I could just, for example, 'from datetime import
> datetime' in __init__.py and have the ability to use 'datetime'
> anywhere in any of the modules in 'package'.
That would break one of the very nice features of Python's namespace
system: that, because nothing[0] comes into a module without an explicit
‘import foo’, you can always trace where ‘foo’ came from in the source
code.
> This didn't work for me. Did I just do something wrong? Is what I am
> trying to do possible?
If it were possible, we'd have the nightmare of not knowing where the
names in a module were coming from, without having to search all over
the package just to find where these implicit imports were taking place.
No, thanks; I'm glad it's not possible.
> Thanks in advance.
[0] Two exceptions: There are a certain number of built-in names,
strictly limited and well documented in the standard Python
documentation. There are also those who use a namespace-clobbering
‘from foo import *’, to which the solution is a clue-bat applied to
the back of the skull.
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