[Visualpython-users] polluted name space of the visual module

[Guy K. K. <g....@ma...>]

Hi,

just trying to hunt down on how to delete a scene, so I can create a new one 
within the same running program. Trying to hunt this down I've been wondering 
why there are so many things within the visual module. It is absolutely a 
highly polluted name space. It's happening already in the visual.__init__ 
module through two snowball imports:

from math import *
from numpy import *

Would it be possible to refactor VPython in the future to be a little bit 
better behaved and just import numpy and math and use the functions using the 
dot notation (numpy.array, math.sin, ...) rather than them blended *all* 
directly into the name space?

All Python style guides tell to *not* pollute the name space. Here's one from 
the "Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python" from David Goodger's PyCon 2007 
talk:

http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html#importing

Let's try to make Visual Python a good Python citizen!

Guy

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