On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:06 +0400, Ivan Sagalaev wrote:
> Brent Hagany wrote:
> > The issue of making shortcuts better (and decreasing the number of
> > imports in views.py files) was brought up at DjangoCon
>
> Another angle on the issue of reducing imports is that we can do it not
> with shortcuts only but by packing some smaller modules into larger
> ones. For example just yesterday I've stumbled upon this in my views:
>
> from django.views.decorators.http import require_POST, condition
> from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect, \
> HttpResponseForbidden, HttpResponseBadRequest, Http404
>
> And thought that it would be way better to merge both modules into a
> django.http and then I could just
>
> from django import http
>
> and use everything in it with just a 5-letter prefix.
>
> What people think about it?
As a general process, I'm inclined to think it's the wrong direction --
making namespaces larger and larger. That way lies PHP or web2py. You
can already write
from django.view.decorators import http as decs
from django import http
and it's two short lines. I think, though, that this shows the real
problem: we have a few overlapping names like this that are unfortunate
and historically entrenched. I wouldn't be thrilled about compromising
on separation of responsibilities to avoid an "as" import too much like
that.
I mean, really, imports are such a small part of the process and so easy
to make easier without jamming things together too much.
Not sure there's any perfectly ideal situation here. We have a history
that leads to certain things being named in certain ways. Working out
how to jam things together won't result in everybody being pleased in
any case.
Malcolm
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