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Re: Importing Definitions

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>> You can! Any name will work, functions aren't special.
>>
>> from module1 import method1, A, B, C, D, E
>
> Better practice is to use:
>
> import module1
> print module1.A
> print module2.B
>
> and so forth since that makes it far more clear what you are doing and
> where they come from. But it's not compulsory.

Maybe I'm imagining things, but I think it's pretty common to see some
big-ass modules imported using "from module import *".  While people
may think that's expedient, I think it can often be the source of
subtle bugs.

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Importing Definitions Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-09-05 05:39 -0700
  Re: Importing Definitions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-05 22:50 +1000
    Re: Importing Definitions Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-05 17:28 +0000
      Re: Importing Definitions Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-09-05 13:06 -0500
      Re: Importing Definitions Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-09-06 11:05 +0100
  Re: Importing Definitions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-09-05 15:00 +0200
  Re: Importing Definitions Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-09-05 05:56 -0700
  Re: Importing Definitions Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-09-06 02:10 -0700

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