On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > # ui_main.py > from ui_mod1 import * > from ui_mod2 import * > from ui_mod3 import * > from ui_mod4 import * > > At least by this method i can maintain the code base without > wearing-out my scroll finger and eventually loosing my mind. > THE MORAL: With very few exceptions, please put EVERY class > in it's own module.
Absolutely definitely not. If you're going to import * into every module, just write it all in a single source file. Otherwise, when someone tries to find the source code for some particular class or function, s/he has to go digging through all five source files - first the utterly useless merge-point, then the four others, because there's no way to know which one has it. Python could make this easier for us, by retaining the origin of every function and class. And maybe it's already there, but I don't know about it. But even if it did exist (by the way, it would be useful for other things than just taming a mad layout like this), it'd still be better to keep everything combined, because the origin of a function/class could just as easily go to the exact line as to the file. A module is a namespace. It should be used as such. If you want a package, use a package. There's no point putting each class out separate unless you really need that. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
