On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:52 AM, Simon Willison<si...@simonwillison.net> wrote: > > On Aug 3, 3:53 am, chairface <brent.hag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Also, it is only a single video, but that video >> is a pretty good resource for the topic of Django's future. It was >> the topic of the entire hour. Are you implying that it's a poor >> source for people wondering where Django is going? It was explicitly >> designed to be exactly that kind of source. > > I'm sorry if I gave that impression, but it really wasn't my > intention. The talk was titled "Django Heresies" partly because I > wanted to emphasize that it was NOT a discussion of Django's intended > future - it was more an exploration of things which one person (me) > thought we should reconsider as a community and open up for further > discussion. It was meant to be controversial! >
For what it's worth I think you guys are referencing different things. The original poster was talking about one of your pony requests during the pony session at DjangoCon, and you seem to be talking about your talk at EuroDjangoCon (which was lacking in foxes on trampolines...). >> Simon has not justified why his particular preference for imports >> necessarily meets even the common case and why he, or somebody else, >> cannot put their own choices for common imports into a single that they >> import (pretty normal "reduce repetition" pattern in Python). > > All I was saying is that I find myself repeating the same imports at > the top of every views.py - and wondering if there's a better option. > For my own projects I inevitably end up creating my own shortcuts.py > module. I wish I didn't have to. > > As an aside, I've been experimenting with the single import pattern > (which I rather like, but everyone else seems to hate) in djng: > > http://github.com/simonw/djng/blob/953eb33390972cbdd0ac0a52e3b23bfdd55e2cfe/example_forms.py > > Cheers, > > Simon > > > Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you want" -- Me --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
