importing question ?

[Cliff Wells]

On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 16:42, Kenny Tilton wrote:
> Kenny Tilton wrote:
> > 
> >> 'from classes import *' brings all the toplevel objects in classes 
> >> into your local namespace, so you can access them just through the 
> >> name. Generally, though, I think this is considered bad practice, as 
> >> it could create overlaps. 
> > 
> > 
> > I just ran into this and I do not like it, because I have what I 
> > consider one little subsystem (Cells) but I have it spread over ten 
> > source files. 
> 
> I just saw the option to:
> 
>    from <package> import *
> 
> along with listing all modules in an __all__ definition in the __init__ 
> file in the package directory. hope eternal. but it seems I then have to 
> qualify any reference with the module name (which I think I grok--it is 
> importing everything into the current namespace in go (nice) but then 
> leaves them compartmented by module when it does so (not what I wanted, 
> viz, a flat namespace for the package).

Would the following sort of arrangement work for you?

# --- file f1.py ---
def fun1():
    print "f1"

# --- file f2.py ---
def fun2():
    print "f2"

# --- file f3.py ---
def fun3():
    print "f3"

# --- file f.py ---
from f1 import fun1 
from f2 import fun2
from f3 import fun3

# --- file main.py ---
import f

f.fun1()
f.fun2()
f.fun3()

Just use an intermediary module to import the other files into (this
could be the __init__.py file in a package directory).


    
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> 
>   kenny tilton
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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
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