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  A question about imports in wxpython cl@isbd.net - 2016-02-08 15:44 +0000
    Re: A question about imports in wxpython Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-02-08 09:25 -0700

#102683 — A question about imports in wxpython

I'm playing with some code that uses the wxpython grid.  *Every*
example I have seen starts with the imports:-

    import wx
    import wx.grid as Gridlib

As Gridlib is exactly the same number of characters as wx.grid I
really don't see the point.  Am I missing something?

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On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:44 AM,  <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
> I'm playing with some code that uses the wxpython grid.  *Every*
> example I have seen starts with the imports:-
>
>     import wx
>     import wx.grid as Gridlib
>
> As Gridlib is exactly the same number of characters as wx.grid I
> really don't see the point.  Am I missing something?

You're not missing anything. I've actually never seen that before (or
at least never noticed). The first hit when searching "import wx.grid"
is http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/grid_overview.html which
doesn't use the "as" (but I see some hits farther down that do).

Probably the author of that code was just trying to save a dict lookup
every time "wx.grid" is referenced (which has to look up "wx" in the
globals and then "grid" as an attribute). Seems like an unnecessary
micro-optimization to me.

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