[Python-Dev] Great Renaming? What is the goal? (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:14:46 -0500 (EST)

"PF" == Peter Funk <pf@artcom-gmbh.de> writes:

PF> That is even worse. So not only the 'import' sections, which I PF> usually keep at the top of my modules, have to be changed: This PF> way for example 're.compile(...' has to be changed into PF> 'text.re.compile(...' all over the place possibly breaking the PF> 'Maximum Line Length' styleguide rule.

There is nothing wrong with changing only the import statement: from text import re

The only problematic use of from ... import ... is from text.re import * which adds an unspecified set of names to the current namespace.

Jeremy