a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > Coincidentally, I tried PyFlakes yesterday and was unimpressed with > the way it doesn't work with "import *".
That's pretty much the reason to avoid ‘from foo import *’: it makes the namespace indeterminate without actually running the code. Just as much a problem for the human reader as for a reader like ‘pyflakes’. But you knew that already. -- \ “Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it | `\ has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has | _o__) been playful, rebellious, and immature.” —Tom Robbins | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list