[pymvpa] Use of import *

[Per B. Sederberg]

Absolutely!!!  'import *' is a very very bad thing that has bitten me
more times than I care to admit.  Let's take them out!

P

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Michael Hanke <michael.hanke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> recently there have been a number of commits introducing 'import *'
> statements and in addition removal of import statements, because the
> respective modules were imported in other modules which in turn were
> import with '*'. Now pylint is screaming desperately -- and after having
> thought about it, I think it is right.
>
> The previous way of explicitely importing every single piece with absolute
> references gave each module a nice list of internal and external
> dependencies. If we (re)move/named something we immediately noticed
> what would break, by simple importing the module. All those 'import *'
> kill this advantage. Now 'import *' would almost always succeed and we
> rely on actually running *all* code to see what break. A proper unit
> test battery somewhat deals with it, but IMHO we should not remove that
> additional source of trust.
>
> If you agree with my judgement, I would add a devguide snippet about it.
>
> BTW: I'm not talking about mvpa.suite which is for interactive PyMVPA
> and fine as it is.
>
>
> Did I miss something?
>
> Michael
>
>
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