[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API (original) (raw)

Karen Tracey kmtracey at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 13:22:00 CET 2010

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>wrote:

On 10/11/2010 15:48, R. David Murray wrote:

I think Tres was referring to certain packages (which shall remain nameless since I don't feel like googling to find one) whose documentation recommends the 'from import *' methodology.

Contenders include popular libraries like fabric and django: http://docs.fabfile.org/0.9.2/usage/fabfiles.html http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/intro/tutorial03/ That is one very specific module in Django that gets imported that way, it is not a general pattern recommended by Django. For every other Django module besides that one you will see specific imports being used in the doc.

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