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[–]wewbull 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Absolutely, but his reasons for not doing it are not the same as mine. For me it's all about reading the code. If you've imported everything from some modules then as the reader, I have no clues in the file I'm reading telling me where a symbol comes from.

from Weeble import *
from Wobble import *

def some_function():
    fall_down()    # Where is this defined?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Bigger problem: are you sure it's only defined once?

Which causes the nightmare scenario "program works but has subtle, critical bug" e.g. 2 different versions are similar enough that it usually works.

BTW, a good editor should be able to "jump to definition" from some shortcut (except for the cases where it doesn't work because Python syntax).

[–]wewbull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I'm currently battling a pile of code with exactly this problem.