[Tutor] educational

[Mark Lawrence]

On 09/03/2014 21:35, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 09/03/14 19:56, Ben Finney wrote:
>
>> Then I'm further confirmed in my view that ‘from tkinter import *’ is
>> dreadful practice, especially for a system we recommend to newcomers.
>
> Its always dreadful practice for production code regardless of the
> module. Its OK for playing at the >>> prompt but not much more.
>
> I usually import Tkinter as
>
> import tkinter as tk
>
>> Now all I need is for the Tkinter-using community to change itself to
>> fix this confusing practice. I won't hold my breath.
>
> I don't find everyone in the Tkinter community using from tkinter import
> *, quite a few use normal practice. But historically I agree
> it's been an unfortunate paradigm, Even the IDLE code uses
> import * :-(
>
>

I vaguely recall reading somewhere that IDLE is moving towards 'ímport 
tkinter as tk', a process which would certainly be helped by the 
extremely sensible PEP 434 http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0434/

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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