Beginner question: Logs?

[Greg Ewing]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> It's always a good idea, especially when answering a beginner's 
> question, to add the caution that this form ("from xxx import *") has 
> certain dangers** associated with it, and is widely considered poor 
> style, and should really only rarely be used.

Better still, don't even *mention* it to a beginner.
They don't need to know about it. At all. Really.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg