Re: [matplotlib-devel] numpification and imports

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On 7/16/07, Darren Dale <dd...@co...> wrote:

> This seems a little too cute too me, no offense intended to the clever author.
> Why do we need a single namespace? It seems unadvisable. There is additional
> overhead with namespace lookups: running numpy.arange(10) a million times
> takes 15% longer than arange(10). I would have thought it best to do more
> of "from w import x, y, z"

Eric Firing and I discussed this extensively off list over the weekend
-- we tried a bunch of things (eg the Importer and Namespace classes)
and I was using svn as a testing lab, fully aware that this may not be
the right final solution, but the code worked and was easily changed.
In the end, we decided not to do it, favoring instead the simple

from matplotlib import cbook # unlikely clash, use module name as is
from matplotlib import lines as mlines  # add m prefix to avoid likely clash

I just haven't fixed the code yet.

JDH