[Python-Dev] Imports with underscores

[Chris Barker]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> The tkinter doc still has
>
> ...to use Tkinter all you need is a simple import statement:
>   import tkinter
> Or, more often:
>   from tkinter import *
>
> Should this be changed?
>

yes, it should.

I would suggest suggesting something like:

import tkinter as tk

following the similar convention of wxPython, numpy, matplotlib, (all
large widely used packages that started their lives with import *
recommendations...)

-CHB




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