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Subject: Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax
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 Dur=C3=A1n Casta=C3=B1eda
> <rafadurancastan...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> El 12/11/11 13:43, Tim Chase escribi=C3=B3:>     I hate trying to trac=
k 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=20
the examples will need to be changed ;-). So it will not be trivial.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy