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[Henning Eggers <henning.eggers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 24.01.2011 08:26, schrieb Aaron Bentley:
> I think we should keep "Importing a module should not have side
> effects".  One of the libraries used by launchpadlib for storing
> passwords does this, as does lp.codehosting, so we can't assume people
> will avoid it.

We removed stuff that we felt is general software engineering knowledge that
everyone working here should know. Side effects are always bad, that is not
Launchpad-specific. Are we expecting too much possibly?

Henning