On 12 November 2011 11:56, candide <candide@free.invalid> wrote: > First, could you confirm the following syntax > > import foo as f > > equivalent to > > import foo > f = foo > > > > Now, I was wondering about the usefulness in everyday programming of the as > syntax within an import statement. Here are some instances retrieved from > real code of such a syntax > > import numpy as np > > import math as _math > > import pickle as pickle > > > -- In the first case, the syntax is motivated by brevity need, isn't it ?
Correct! > -- The second case seems to be rather widespread and causes math attribute > to be private but I don't figure out why this matters. This way math doesn't get bound in the global namespace when doing "from module import *" > -- In the last case, I can see no point Neither can I > So what is the pragmatics of the as syntax ? It can also help when you want to import two different modules with the same name. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
