Could people please compare and contrast the two ways of doing imports in the Subject line?
I've long favored the latter, but I'm working in a code base that prefers the former. Is it fair to say that the former increases the surface area of your shared (sometimes mutable) state? It's clear that the former saves keystrokes. I find the latter a little more clear, because you don't have to go look for where a symbol came from. Anything else? Thanks! PS: Haskell seems better at the former than Python; Haskell tells you if you import two identical symbols from two different places, when you try to use one of them - not at import time. I believe in Python, whichever symbol you import last, wins. Haskell does not warn you at import time, which is fine. Not sure about OCaml or whatever else. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
