On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:33:00 +0000, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > Giovanni Bajo wrote: >> On mer, 2009-01-07 at 09:26 +0000, Chris Withers wrote: >>> Phil Thompson wrote: >>>> On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:19:50 -0500, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> A bit nasty, since I see (and follow) lots of examples that say: >>>>> from PyQt4.QtCore import * >>>>> >>>>> This redefines the builtin hex. >>>> Check the Roadmap. >>> Appending a _ just to make an unpleasant style of programming work seems >>> >>> like a pretty silly idea. >>> >>> I, along with everyone else who's tryng to learn a new python package, >>> absolutely *hate* "from x import *" as it makes it much more difficult >>> figure out where something is coming from. >> >> So don't use it. > > You rather miss my point. > > I don't ever use star imports anyway. > > However, like most people, I learn by example, and when the examples > contain exclusively start imports, they are much less helpful than they > could be. > > It's a shame PEP8 doesn't make a pronouncement on this. PEP 328 is > pretty clear though... > >> This has been discussed thousands of times and it starts getting >> annoying. > > Yes, it is annoying that all the example code continues to be in a form > that confuses users trying to learn PyQt.
*None* of the PyQt4 examples uses star imports. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
