[Python-Dev] Imports with underscores
Chris Barker
chris.barker at noaa.gov
Tue Jan 10 11:49:28 EST 2017
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> The tkinter doc still has
>
> ...to use Tkinter all you need is a simple import statement:
> import tkinter
> Or, more often:
> from tkinter import *
>
> Should this be changed?
>
yes, it should.
I would suggest suggesting something like:
import tkinter as tk
following the similar convention of wxPython, numpy, matplotlib, (all
large widely used packages that started their lives with import *
recommendations...)
-CHB
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