bpo-29446: Improve tkinter 'import *' situation#14864

flavianh · 2019-07-19T15:59:22Z

A pull request for this issue.

@ericvsmith recommended using __all__ = [name for name, obj in globals().items() if not name.startswith('_') and not isinstance(obj, types.ModuleType) and name not in{'wantobjects'}].

Also added all in submodules of tkinter.

Side note: Interestingly, idlelib/editor.py was using sys and re from tkinter instead of importing them. There may be more modules that use "from tkinter import *"

https://bugs.python.org/issue29446

serhiy-storchaka · 2019-07-19T17:44:11Z

Lib/tkinter/__init__.py

_default_root should never be imported, neither implicitly, nor implicitly.
_cnfmerge should not be imported implicitly since it is an internal function.

_default_root is already imported in tkinter.simpledialog and _cnfmerge is used in dialog.py
For _cnfmerge the change is straightforward: I just have to omit it in __all__ and the import in dialog.py will work just fine
For _default_root I don't know how to remove it from simpledialog.py without affecting the behaviour of _QueryDialog. I can't leave parent as None if no parent is passed because then the line if parent.winfo_viewable(): will fail.
Same in font.py.
I updated the PR to not export _cnfmerge and _default_root in __all__, but could not prevent _default_root from being used elsewhere.

No, it is not imported, but is accessed as an attribute of tkinter.
The difference is that its value is changed after importing. When you import the submodule, it is None. After creating a root widget it keeps a reference to it, which can be used as a default parent in _QueryDialog.

Thanks for the clarification!

Lib/tkinter/__init__.py

serhiy-storchaka · 2019-07-19T17:57:04Z

Lib/tkinter/constants.py

This is an unrelated change.

True, I dismissed those changes. Can I open a new PR to add this change?

Lib/tkinter/dialog.py

serhiy-storchaka · 2019-07-19T17:59:19Z

Lib/tkinter/filedialog.py

Could not this be written in one line?

I was unsure about the code style here. What's the standard?
I reworked the imports though, so there might not be any problem any more

Lib/tkinter/tix.py

terryjreedy

Flavian, thank you for making a start on this; As for changes, I pretty much agree with Serhiy.
1 Use Eric's suggestion for things defined in .__init__ and exclude submodules.
2. Make lists horizontal, with multiple items per line (this is pretty standard).
3. Put PEP 8 style changes in another PR, or even another issue; but only after asking Serhiy if he wants them, or at least would merge them.
4. I never wrote about submodules, but __all__ for each, except Tix (leave alone), would be nice.

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terryjreedy · 2019-07-19T21:44:13Z

With respect to the list in your initial comment: The 'Var's are absolutely essential. Without checking idlelib, I presume the other non-underscore names you list there are used also.

flavianh · 2019-07-19T22:59:53Z

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Lib/tkinter/__init__.py

Lib/tkinter/colorchooser.py

Lib/tkinter/commondialog.py

Lib/tkinter/dnd.py

Lib/tkinter/filedialog.py

Lib/tkinter/scrolledtext.py

Lib/tkinter/simpledialog.py

Lib/tkinter/test/test_tkinter/test_misc.py

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flavianh · 2019-07-20T09:10:23Z

Lib/tkinter/font.py

Had to move __version__ here to abide to PEP8 also

flavianh · 2019-07-20T09:28:12Z

@serhiy-storchaka All your comments should now be addressed!

flavianh · 2019-07-23T12:16:38Z

@terryjreedy @serhiy-storchaka Anything blocking?

terryjreedy

Serhiy is responsible for final details of tkinter/* changes.

Lib/idlelib/editor.py

Lib/tkinter/filedialog.py

The expression `from tkinter import *` actually imports re, enum, sys, as well as tkinter functions and classesreserved for internal use. This commit dismisses most of those names by defining the __all__ variable in accordance with the documentation in tkinter and its submodules.

flavianh · 2019-07-24T09:36:55Z

@terryjreedy I had to remove your commit "Move editor.py changes to another PR for full backport" because it was undoing your own changes when I rebased on master ;)

terryjreedy · 2019-07-25T20:11:04Z

Serhiy, as near as I can tell, this is ready to go. If you agree, it would be nice to get it into a3, due next Monday.

Lib/tkinter/commondialog.py

serhiy-storchaka · 2019-07-25T20:24:48Z

Lib/tkinter/font.py

 import tkinter

+__version__ = "0.9"
+__all__ = ["NORMAL", "ROMAN", "BOLD", "ITALIC", "nametofont", "Font", "families",


I would break a line after "ITALIC".

Sure thing. What is your rule for line breaks? I'd like to automate it in my IDE

It is hard to automate. Semantically the first four names in this list are names of constants.

serhiy-storchaka · 2019-07-25T20:25:58Z

Lib/tkinter/messagebox.py


 from tkinter.commondialog import Dialog

+__all__ = ["showinfo", "showwarning", "showerror", "askquestion", "askokcancel",


I suggest to break a line after "showerror".

serhiy-storchaka · 2019-07-25T20:29:17Z

Lib/tkinter/filedialog.py

 These interfaces were written by Fredrik Lundh, May 1997.
 """
+__all__ = ["FileDialog", "LoadFileDialog", "SaveFileDialog", "Open", "SaveAs",
+ "Directory", "askopenfilename", "asksaveasfilename", "askopenfilenames",


This line is longer then PEP 8 limit. I would format the list like:
__all__ = ["FileDialog", "LoadFileDialog", "SaveFileDialog", "Open", "SaveAs", "Directory", "askopenfilename", "asksaveasfilename", "askopenfilenames", "askopenfile", "askopenfiles", "asksaveasfile", "askdirectory"]

Added the 79-character line length to my IDE's configuration for cPython

flavianh · 2019-07-25T21:08:08Z

@serhiy-storchaka Changes done ;)

flavianh · 2019-07-25T21:34:56Z

@terryjreedy up to you :)

terryjreedy · 2019-07-26T01:35:04Z

It doesn't really matter which of us merges. I presume that this should not be backported to 3.8 because b3 is too late for new features, even all. There must be other code that will break with this change, just like IDLE did. Thank you for sticking with this.

…4864) Add __all__ to tkinter.__init__ and submodules. Replace 'import *' with explicit imports in some submodules.

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		from tkinter.commondialog import Dialog

		__all__ = ["showinfo", "showwarning", "showerror", "askquestion", "askokcancel",

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