[pymvpa] Use of import *

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

but that is only in the tests... and I explicitly specified __all__ for
tests_warehouse so we don't suck in anything irrelevant with that import
*. 

On Thu, 05 Jun 2008, Per B. Sederberg wrote:

> 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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