using import * with GUIs?

[akameswaran at gmail.com]

John Salerno wrote:
> Hi all. Quick question (but aren't they all?) :)
>
> Do you think it's a good idea to use the 'from <name> import *'
> statement when using a GUI module? It seems on wxPython's site, they
> recommend using import wx nowadays, but I wonder if that advice is
> followed. Also, I'm still reading some Tkinter docs that seem to use
> 'from Tkinter import *' a lot.
>
> I understand the danger of doing this, but is it safer in these cases,
> given the more specific names that GUI frameworks tend to use
> (sometimes!)? Or should you still qualify all your calls with the module?

The python style guide takes no position on this.
Personally I prefer explicit to implicit, and typing wx.  is not really
that much to type is it?