Jake Lishman • 4/13/2020

Detecting star imports in Python

This technical article discusses Python's import system, specifically the challenges of wildcard (star) imports. It explains how to detect when a module is imported via 'from module import *' to issue warnings, as part of a strategy to reduce namespace pollution and improve import performance in scientific computing libraries like QuTiP. It covers the import statement forms, the __all__ variable, and module initialization.

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