[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updates/clarifications (original) (raw)

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Tue Dec 13 05:47:12 CET 2005

skip at pobox.com wrote:

This is subjective enough that I would think some rationale explaining this convention should be given. Personally, I group imports into three sections as follows:

* Python core modules/packages * Third-party modules/packages * Local modules/packages

This is already in PEP 8:

 - Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any
   module comments and docstrings, and before module globals and
   constants.  Imports should be grouped, with the order being

   1. standard library imports
   2. related major package imports (i.e. all email package imports

next) 3. application specific imports

   You should put a blank line between each group of imports.

I would suggest that it should also say that all goes after imports. But otherwise it's all good; the Mailman style guide just goes into greater detail.

-- Ian Bicking | ianb at colorstudy.com | http://blog.ianbicking.org

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