[Python-Dev] Tweaking PEP 8 guidelines for use of leading underscores

[Tres Seaver]

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On 07/16/2013 07:09 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> I did find it interesting that we *don't* explicitly advise against 
> the use of "import *" for anything other than optional accelerator 
> modules or republishing internal interfaces through a public API,
> even though we advice against the practice in the tutorial. Perhaps
> another oversight worth correcting?

+1.  'from foo import *' (from any source other than another module in
the same package) is a code stench far worse than anything else PEP8
proscribes.


Tres.
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