On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 08:26, Dominik Vilsmeier <dominik.vilsme...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 02.08.20 15:36, Sebastian M. Ernst wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > yet another (possibly bad?) idea from day-to-day work ...
> >
> > I occasionally need to import a lot of "stuff" from certain modules. The
> > "stuff" is usually following a pattern. E.g. I have modules that
> > (mostly) collect special exception classes and I usually need them all
> > in one push - but nothing else from those modules.
>
> It seems the responsibility of the package / distribution you are using
> to provide appropriate namespaces for their objects. If this "stuff" is
> following a certain pattern it seems to be distinct from other parts of
> the module, especially since you as a user have the need to only import
> those objects. So if they lived in their own namespace then you could
> simply do
>
> from somepkg.errors import *
And of course if they don't do that, you can yourself do:
somepkg_errors.py
```
import somepkg
__all__ = [x for x in dir(somepkg) if x.endswith('Error')]
```
Your program
```
from somepkg_errors import *
```
Paul
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