RE: [Pythoncard-users] python style issue with import statements

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

> From: Neil Hodgson
>
> Kevin Altis:
>
> > What I'm wondering is whethr the imports above are
> > considered "good style". I remember Neil bringing this
> > up long ago, but I don't know if there was a general rule
> > other than avoid import * when possible, which of
> > course is always done with wxPython.wx, but other than
> > that how does the list above look?
>
>    There is a 'What are the "best practices" for using import in
> a module?'
> FAQ:
> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq04.100.htp
>    My aversion to "import *" comes from the consensus on comp.lang.python,
> especially from Tim Peters - all praise the timbot!. It is also a
> good idea
> to try to limit dependencies as designs where each module calls a lot of
> other modules are hard to understand.

Thanks, I forgot about the FAQ. I think one of the problems is a circular
reference, so I'm going to switch to the import module form everywhere if
possible and then do explicit references in the code.

ka