[reportlab-users] Two Generic Questions

[Tim Roberts]

Rich Shepard wrote:

>   Without intending criticism or anything other than satisfying my

> curiosity, I'd like to understand why 1) we don't import everything from

> reportlab, but one function at a time. 


That's just good Python practice.  Almost any time you see this:

    from anothermodule import *

it is a bad practice.  It pollutes your global namespace with a whole
bunch of names that aren't visible to other people reading your code. 
Later on, when the code says:

   myCanvas = Canvas( ... )

The person reading your code says "where the heck did Canvas come
from?"  Whereas, if it says this:

    from reportlab.canvas import Canvas

then it is immediately clear where it came from.

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