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> The "Pipe" approach (Cleaner for agents

How did you verify the benefit?

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Please never use `from something import *`, not even for a demo. It is not explicit, not maintainable, and goes against all Python guidelines. Certainly never expect any user to use it either.
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FWIW the afaik most common symbolic math Python library sympy does that on the first page of their tutorial. I think in this space it's pretty common.

https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorials/intro-tutorial/intro...

I have to admit that I still like to use the ancient

    from pylab import *
in scripts that only I will ever see. It makes it so much easier to use numpy in a "tool of thought" way. I would never do this in a library, though.
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Two wrongs don't make a right. It risks significant ambiguity in longer snippets or files, and is therefore bad practice.
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You would be suprised on how many large scale project I saw this beauty lamao, not saying that this is okay, people just dgaf
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