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Comment by m_mueller | Hacker News Reader

One thing I find odd is to prohibit classes / functions from being imported, instead forcing to always write their module names for the fear of namespace collisions. Is this common for Python in organisations? Did I get something wrong? Seems to a little bit too much on the Java side of this tradeoff.

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I prefer importing whole modules too. One of the benefit is much easier code reviews:

Imagine this diff in the middle of a file (in Javascript)

  if (includes(users, userId)) {
    open(load(userId))
  }

  if (_.includes(users, userId)) {
    Modal.open(UserApi.load(userId))
  }

Code with many from... imports becomes very unreadable very fast.

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