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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

utils and pack are imported at startup in r2866.
Please report problems if any, and it will be reverted.

Bruno


On 06/05/11 22:51, Bruno Chareyre wrote:
> 2/ functions, like sphere(), SpherePack(), aabbWalls(), can't be used just
>>> like this, we need to always type utils.sphere. I don't see advantage, and
>>> it's not always obvious which module contains a given function. Would it be
>>> a problem to make such functions reachable from the global namespace (just
>>> adding "from utils import *" in yade.py)?
>> We should be careful with that. A lot of user's scripts will not work
>> after such modification.
>> I dont know...
> When something is already imported, importing it again or typing
> alreadyimported.function() is fully harmless. So, such change would be
> 200% backward compatible.
>
> Bruno
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