John Salerno wrote: > Hi all. Quick question (but aren't they all?) :) > > Do you think it's a good idea to use the 'from <name> import *' > statement when using a GUI module? It seems on wxPython's site, they > recommend using import wx nowadays, but I wonder if that advice is > followed. Also, I'm still reading some Tkinter docs that seem to use > 'from Tkinter import *' a lot. > > I understand the danger of doing this, but is it safer in these cases, > given the more specific names that GUI frameworks tend to use > (sometimes!)? Or should you still qualify all your calls with the module?
The python style guide takes no position on this. Personally I prefer explicit to implicit, and typing wx. is not really that much to type is it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list