the demise of 'from foo import * and its implications?

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:47:51 -0500, Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> pisze:

> I did begin to wonder whether it might be possible to specify a
> name prefix, along the lines of
> 
>     from modulewithaverylongname import * prefix sh_
> 
> to allow
> 
>     sh_i

import modulewithaverylongname as sh
for name in dir(sh): globals()['sh_'+name] = getattr(sh, name)
del sh

I don't see why do to this, and it's certainly not a feature to go
into the standard language.

An opposite trick can be used if a module is designed to be
star-imported and uses name prefixes, but we dislike star-import.
We can remove prefixes while moving objects to a separate namespace.

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