Toplevel "test()" functions in standard library

[Rob W. W. Hooft]

>>>>> "PS" == Peter Schneider-Kamp <peter at schneider-kamp.de> writes:

 PS> I cannot comment on the reason for this idiom, but for your name
 PS> space pollution using "from ... import *": Don't use it.

I don't. But some still do.

 PS> <rant>Even in the short time I have been on the list I have seen
 PS> examples of nearly untrackable bugs because of name space
 PS> collisions when using "from ... import *".</rant>

I am all in favor of solving this kind of problems 2 ways: 
 - Discourage use of from ... import * even more than now
 - Make use that there is as little pollution as possible

 PS> I don't even use "from Tkinter import *" in GUI apps. 

Same here. I don't even rename it. The repeated Tkinter.TOP and
Tkinter.YES are a bit annoying, but it makes the code quite clear.

Rob

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