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

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

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> On Jul 16, 2013, at 07:34 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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> >On 07/16/2013 07:09 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
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> >> 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?
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> >+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.
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> Maybe we should disable it for anything that isn't at the interactive
> prompt
> <0.5 wink>.
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Or how about dropping the whole ``from ... import ...`` format entirely?
<0.5 wink; seriously, it's implementation is a pain and it has wonky
semantics>
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