Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Xavier Morel wrote:
>> Shane Hathaway wrote:
>>
>>>Thoughts?
>> >>> import re; name_expr = re.compile('[a-zA-Z]+')
>> >>> name_expr
>> <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x00F9D338>
>> >>>
>> the import statement can be called anywhere in the code, why would
>> you add strange syntactic sugar that doesn't actually bring anything?
>
> That syntax is verbose and avoided by most coders because of the speed
> penalty. It doesn't replace the idiom of importing everything at the
> top of the module.
>
> What's really got me down is the level of effort required to move code
> between modules. After I cut 100 lines from a 500 line module and
> paste them to a different 500 line module, I have to examine every
> import in both modules as well as examine the code I moved for missing
> imports. And I still miss a lot of cases. My test suite catches a lot
> of the mistakes, but it can't catch everything.
I understand this use case.
You can use pychecker to find NameErrors without actually running the
code. Unfortunately, it doesn't (at least not always) find imports
which are not needed.
Thomas
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