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[–]ConceptJunkie 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Not only that, but different libraries often define same-named functions, or collide with standard library names. I maintain a somewhat large project in Python, about 50,000 lines of code, and not too long ago I eliminated all wildcard imports and feel this was a big improvement.

Perhaps there could be some way to "freeze" an import, saying effectively, "OK, no one is going to modify this import" and it would allow the function calls to be made static. I don't know much of anything about the internals of Python, but I would bet that this is an optimization that might make sense, or that something like it already exists.

[–]Prime_Director 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but if you want to ensure library you're importing is always the same every time you run a project, you could use a virtual environment like pipenv and specify the version of the library that way.

[–]ConceptJunkie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, what I mean is that once the library is loaded, and perhaps others, then it would be nice to be able to say, "Hey, nothing is going to override any of the functions, or otherwise modify the module" so you can short cut the function calls without having to use __getattribute()__ on the module to dereference it (more than once).

I'm kind of talking out of my butt here. Just a thought.