Re: [Visualpython-users] Let's hash out the documentation for restrictive imports

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

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:11:44 Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> I think and hope we're in agreement. My point was a narrow technical
> one, that in the matplotlib case the simplified import could be
> handled with a single file (pylab.py) whereas we need a folder named
> visual due to the existence of visual.graph and visual.factorial and
> possible imports by someone of other files currently in the visual
> folder.

Wouldn't it make sense to have "vpython" (or any other name) as a package 
(folder/directory), which contains then the modules graph and factorial?

Then visual would just need to be a module (visual.py) to import the stuff 
from vpython, vpython.graph, vpython.factorial, ...

Guy

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