[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] More Package concerns

[Konrad Hinsen]

> How do people feel about having all of their files begin with:
> 
> import ni
> import Numeric
> ...

Bad. But what's the alternative?

Since I know next to nothing about ni, I shouldn't speculate, but...
Would it be possible to put "import ni" into Numeric, such that
after "import Numeric" or "from Numeric import *" one could go on to
import subpackages?

Incidentally, I have wondered more than once why import doesn't
accept strings to specify the module to be imported. If that
were the case, a simple "FFT = 'FFT'" in Numeric.py would be
sufficient to get most of the package functionality without any
mysterious "import ni".

Konrad.
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