Agree - splat-imports make it extremely difficult to understand
example code.
Here are (all?) the places on the wiki where they are used:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22from+mapnik+import%22+site%3Atrac.mapnik.org%2Fwiki
It'd be worth fixing these, I've started with
http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/GettingStarted
.
-mike.
On Apr 1, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Dane Springmeyer wrote:
>> in the 'world_map.py' you created make sure you have the line:
>>
>> from mapnik import *
>
> Please don't encourage "import *" in python scripts. Python namespaces
> are a wonderful thing -- let's use them.
>
> Every single package I'm involved in that used to encourage "import
> *",
> now encourages alternative imports:
>
> import wx
>
> from numpy import np
>
> etc.
>
> It is nice to have a standard form recommended for a package, perhaps:
>
> import mapnik as mk
>
> if you don't want to type "mapnik" all over the place
>
> [email protected] wrote:
>>>>> from mapnik import Map
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> ImportError: cannot import name Map
>
> This looks like he has a mapnik package, but it's not complete.
>
> arrgg!
>
> -Chris
>
>
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