Say “no” to import side‐effects in Python

Re:Say “no” to import side‐effects in Python by zipfle on Saturday April 05, 2014 @07:35AM (#7536715)

I sometimes make calls to collections.namedtuple and other class building functions at the same time as the rest of my definitions.

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Re:Say “no” to import side‐effects in Python by rcfox on Saturday April 05, 2014 @08:17AM (#7536801)

If you pass verbose=True to namedtuple(), you can see that it's essentially just defining a new class. This is something that people already do at the top level of a module.

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