[OutOfHere]

Please never use `from something import *`, not even for a demo. It is not explicit, not maintainable, and goes against all Python guidelines. Certainly never expect any user to use it either.

[cl3misch]

FWIW the afaik most common symbolic math Python library sympy does that on the first page of their tutorial. I think in this space it's pretty common.

https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorials/intro-tutorial/intro...

I have to admit that I still like to use the ancient

    from pylab import *

in scripts that only I will ever see. It makes it so much easier to use numpy in a "tool of thought" way. I would never do this in a library, though.

[OutOfHere]

Two wrongs don't make a right. It risks significant ambiguity in longer snippets or files, and is therefore bad practice.

[dinunnob]

Yeah, you’re not wrong. Makes the syntax a bit annoying here (goal was to lower barrier of entry for physicists). I agree this is bad practice.

[OutOfHere]

In the limiting sense, especially when a user mixes your snippet with snippets from other packages, the barrier of entry becomes greater due to the resolution ambiguity, not less.

[dinunnob]

fixed in the readme. thanks -

while we are talking imports ... how did `import pyspark.sql.functions as F` ever get past the pep police

[marcelbundle]

You would be suprised on how many large scale project I saw this beauty lamao, not saying that this is okay, people just dgaf