I've always thought "from lib import star" is somewhat of a anti-pattern. Personally I think that makes sense - because sometimes when I read code, I just have no idea where something comes from. But I've seen import star everywhere, couple of examples: Doc for this product FastAI's course Bing ads code base So I'm guessing it is more of accepted than I expected? What does HackerNews think?
Side question: how do you prevent import statements from being imported by "from lib import star"? (Without explicitly mentioning all the stuff that is not import statements). For example, this is mymod.py: import numpy as np def f(x): return 2*x And here it is imported: from mymod import * f(10) # Works as expected. np.sum([10, 20]) # Works, but shouldn't work.
Re: Programmatic Video Editing with Python
#21Any non-trivial python module is going to be broken up into multiple files and have an __init__.py which you can explicitly define what's imported and exposed. You can hoist a single file module into a folder-based module if you need direct control and don't want to split it apart into multiple files yet too.