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Forbid transitive imports

See original GitHub issue

Hi!

I am thing about if this is on scope of this project. I really dislike transitive imports in my projects.

Like:

# module.py
from a import b

And then:

from module import b  # ???

What do you think about it?

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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sobolevncommented, Jul 28, 2019

It would be awesome to have this contract. Something like this:

[importlinter:contract:no-transitive]
name = Forbids to import anything from transitive modules
type = transitive

source = 
  wemake_python_styleguide
  tests

It really helps to untangle your module dependencies and forces you to refactor better. I know that my project contains a lot of transitive imports, but I just can’t find them by my eyes.

Sad, that it is not on the roadmap. I hope that other users will support me here: it should be! 🙂

(For anyone interested in this, please, put 👍 icon to this reply)

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seddonymcommented, Aug 28, 2019

Great, thanks @sobolevn!

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