Re: Module import best practice

2020-03-26 Thread DL Neil via Python-list
I'm not a professional coder. I'm an environmental consultant and I use a I take it all back then... No! No need to feel apologetic, the Python community works hard to be inclusive - which I take to include levels of expertise, not merely countering the various "-isms". variety of tools de

Re: Module import best practice

2020-03-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, DL Neil via Python-list wrote: My personal approach is to follow 'the Zen of Python' and prefer "explicit" over "implicit". (it helps beginners, as well as us old-fogies whose minds cannot retain things for very long) DL, That was my original approach. I see little poin

Re: Module import best practice

2020-03-26 Thread DL Neil via Python-list
Rich, On 26/03/20 9:09 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm writing an application using Python3 and Tkinter. The views/ directory contain multiple modules, including one called commonDlgs.py. This contains classes (such as those for validating data entry) used by all the data entry views. Some classe

RE: Module import best practice

2020-03-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, Schachner, Joseph wrote: I can only tell you my preference. I prefer that Python modules be as self-contained as possible, because "global" is within a module; to share between modules you have to import something, as you know. Joseph, This makes good sense. I don't know

Module import best practice

2020-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm writing an application using Python3 and Tkinter. The views/ directory contain multiple modules, including one called commonDlgs.py. This contains classes (such as those for validating data entry) used by all the data entry views. Some classes in commonDlgs imports other modules. My question