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

[Erik Max Francis]

Steve Holden wrote:

> 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
>
> as a reference to the module's "i", but I'm not sure that the gain is
> worth
> the pain. Even if such a proposal were to be PEP-ified and accepted it
> could
> not be mandated because that would break humongous amounts of existing
> code.
> 
> Thoughts?

I don't see how changing a . to an _ really helps anything, and all it
does is make the language more complex, and add a new keyword which is
_very_ likely to be used in existing code.

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