[Zope] Styles of import in Zope (2 and 3)

Marco Bizzarri marco.bizzarri at gmail.com
Sun Aug 31 10:39:26 EDT 2008


On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
> One goal to shoot for when you do imports is to be able to remove an imported
> name by deleting a line as opposed to editing one (it makes reading diffs a bit
> easier).  E.g. instead of:
>
>  from foo import one, two, three

A lot of this in my code :-(

> I usually either do:
>
>  import foo
>  foo.one

Yes, I'm looking into this.

> Or:
>
>  from foo import one
>  from foo import two
>  from foo import three

Too many of them... maybe an hint I should refactor something :-) ?

> Either way makes diffs cleaner.
>
> One thing I always avoid is "from foo import *".

At least, I've avoided this sin ;)

> - C
>



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