Re: [PyX-devel] Re: Some comments on PyX

[Michael S. <mic...@ph...>]

Hi Jörg and André,

> On 16.10.03, Joerg Lehmann wrote:
> > I'm not sure about that. Of course, at the moment an "import pyx"
> > doesn't do anything (expect providing access to pyx.__version__ and
> > pyx.__all__) and using the code given above it would at least do
> > something reasonable. On the other hand, the behaviour seems to
> > be rather implicit than explicit to me. So, as I said, I don't know.
>
> Well, same for me. Should we play dice now?

I threw a coin, and it said "Number" -- what now?

Some statements about the above:
1. Usually one does not want to say
     pyx.canvas.canvas() instead of canvas.canvas(),
   which is long enough.

2. There might be some conflicts with other module names, and in this
   case it is more work to import the necessary modules one by one
   without these conflicts.

3. Loading everything by default is not a good idea, as can be seen in the
   scipy-project which is too slow for usage.

Is there a possibility for the following?
   "import pyx"        --> access via "pyx.canvas.canvas()", everything
                           is loaded automatically
   "from pyx import *" --> say "canvas.canvas()" instead

Best Greetings,
  Michael

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