On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 08:51, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you exaggerating for effect here or would this *actually* just expand to > > from datetime import datetime > default_args = { > "start_date": datetime(...) > }
Yes – and of course that is just a snippet, an actual complete script will have lots of such imports. The point is that in a scripting situation (especially one in which you have many small scripts) the top-level import requirement for simple imports like `datetime` becomes rather verbose. Thanks _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FVYRPSN6A7KN73MTQIF2UIU5W3HSUPGV/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/