[Yum-devel] [PATCH] clean up all the import yum.blah and from yum.blah import blah

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 30 14:20:23 UTC 2009



On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Tim Lauridsen wrote:

>>   from constants import *
>>   import metalink
>> 
>
> Why ?
>
> from yum.i18n import ....
>
> is more readable than
>
> from i18n import .....
>
> and it is easier to see what is a yum submodule.
>

That's a fair point - major concern I've ever had is importing the wrong 
module if you're working in a separate working path.

maybe that's not a real concern but it was at one point for me and I got 
into that habit.

You do make a good point about figuring out what is from the yum module 
and what is not, though..

I'll think about it.

-sv



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