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Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax

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From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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Date Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:16:38 -0500
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On 11/13/2011 3:55 AM, 0xfn wrote:
> On Nov 12, 7:48 am, Rafael Durán Castañeda
> <rafadurancastan...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> El 12/11/11 13:43, Tim Chase escribió:>     I hate trying to track down variable-names if one did something like
>>
>>>    from Tkinter import *
>>
>> +1
>
> Really, this questionable code is always mentioned as example in
> Tkinter tuts.

I see it is still in the 3.2 tkinter doc, near the top.

> IMHO much better is
>>>> import Tkinter as tk

My opinion also. I will think about changing it someday, but then all 
the examples will need to be changed ;-). So it will not be trivial.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Use and usefulness of the as syntax candide <candide@free.invalid> - 2011-11-12 12:56 +0100
  Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-11-12 23:27 +1100
  Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2011-11-12 12:29 +0000
    Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax candide <candide@free.invalid> - 2011-11-17 16:48 +0100
      Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-11-17 18:38 -0800
  Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-11-12 06:43 -0600
  Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax Rafael Durán Castañeda <rafadurancastaneda@gmail.com> - 2011-11-12 13:48 +0100
    Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax 0xfn <oleg.rimko@gmail.com> - 2011-11-13 00:55 -0800
      Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-11-13 17:16 -0500
  Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax Tim Wintle <tim.wintle@teamrubber.com> - 2011-11-12 13:03 +0000
  Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-11-12 08:59 -0500
  Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax candide <candide@free.invalid> - 2011-11-17 16:48 +0100

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