Phil Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> --------------------------- >> from PyQt4.QtCore import * >> from PyQt4.QtGui import * >> >> dir(Qt) >> --------------------------- >> >> won't show the full Qt namespace, thus making PyQt4 unusable without the >> annoying QtCore/QtGui prefix in front of everything? > > Yes - I hadn't considered that - mainly because I don't adopt such a poor > programming practice ;) Seriously, I don't have much sympathy for people > using a feature that makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot,
So you're one of those programmers who writes a Python module which uses Qt, and defines a class called QWidget or qSIGNAL in it, which has nothing to do with Qt? Because really, that's the only reason why you should suffer from writing **and reading** all those boring and obfuscating QtCore and QtGui prefixes everywhere. I don't need to read QtGui to know what a QComboBox is, while I strongly need "re" to know what "compile" means. The star-import is the equivalent of "using namespace" in C++. It's bad practice to write "using namespace" in header files (for which there is simply no equivalent in Python), but it's very common and actually *smart* to write "using namespace" in source files, especially source files which are tightly connected with the library wrapped in the namespace. It'd be a major annoyance if C++ removed "using namespace", and in fact they are not going to remove it. But really, I'm not in a one-man war trying to change people's mind. People are obviously free to use "UK.RiverbankComputingLtd.PyQt4.QtGui.QWidget" if they find it useful, as long as PyQt official supports the star-import alternative syntax. > and which > is slated for removal in a future version of Python. It must be a *very* future version of Python, since its removal is not even mentioned in PEP 3000. > That said I can see lots of bug reports from lazy programmers, and I > definitely want to avoid that. Thanks, it's appreciated. -- Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list PyKDE@mats.imk.fraunhofer.de http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde