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Re: Style question: Importing modules from packages - 'from' vs 'as'

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Date Fri, 5 Dec 2014 05:05:25 +1100
Subject Re: Style question: Importing modules from packages - 'from' vs 'as'
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant
<jeanmichel@sequans.com> wrote:
> I know you specifically stated you didn't want to do this but
>
> import os
>
> os.path.isfile()
>
> is the best option imo, especially from the reader point of view ("Namespaces are one honking great idea").

With os.path it definitely is. With the actual code in question, it's
a Python 2.7 project that mostly uses relative imports - inside
package.module1 is "import module2" etc - and I was writing an
external script that calls on one of the modules. So it makes sense to
reference it through the code the exact same way, as "module.blah"
rather than "package.module.blah".

ChrisA

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Re: Style question: Importing modules from packages - 'from' vs 'as' Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 05:05 +1100

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