On 6/17/10 10:22 AM, Jack Diederich wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Stephen Hansen
>> It explicitly states later its entirely OK to import classes. It never
>> says anything else directly, except in the example given, it shows you
>> importing a constant. So, its giving implicit approval
Jack Diederich wrote:
You want to import a name that is itself a namespace; preferably a
module or package and sometimes a class. Importing constants can lead
to trouble. ex/
from settings import DEBUG
if DEBUG: log('debug is on!')
The value of the flag gets fetched at import time. If code i
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Stephen Hansen
wrote:
> On 6/17/10 10:01 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> Stephen Hansen wrote:
>>> On 6/17/10 9:12 AM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Now, this is all IMHO: the style guide does not define any 'guidelines'
>>> on this, except that its okay to use "fr
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/17/10 10:01 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/17/10 9:12 AM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Now, this is all IMHO: the style guide does not define any 'guidelines'
on this, except that its okay to use "from ... import ..." to pull in
classes and (implicit
On 6/17/10 10:01 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Stephen Hansen wrote:
>> On 6/17/10 9:12 AM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
>>
>> Now, this is all IMHO: the style guide does not define any 'guidelines'
>> on this, except that its okay to use "from ... import ..." to pull in
>> classes and (implicitly) consta
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/17/10 9:12 AM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Now, this is all IMHO: the style guide does not define any 'guidelines'
on this, except that its okay to use "from ... import ..." to pull in
classes and (implicitly) constants, and despite how the rules say 'one
module per line
On 6/17/10 9:12 AM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
> Are there any efficiency or style guidelines regarding the choice
> of "import " vs. "from import , ..."?
There are no legitimate efficiency issues. In theory, module.blah is
slightly slower then blah, but that "slightly" is largely irrelevant in
gl
Are there any efficiency or style guidelines regarding the choice
of "import " vs. "from import , ..."?
If one only needs to import a few names from a module, are there
specific benefits to explictly importing these names?
My understanding is that both forms of the import command require
the ent
