Please guide me on the pythonic way for a minor code-standards question. Searching SO re imports gets me many discussions comparing import foo vs from foo import bar which is not my concern here. Still I apologize if I am creating a dupe Q.
My team sometimes puts up code for review with import statements like below and I'm struggling to give advice:
Module our_a.py has a classic import statement, this is fine:
from famous_package import some_function
# .. call the famous package's some_function()
Module our_b.py imports the same symbol, but from our_a not from famous_package:
from our_a import some_function
# .. call the famous package's some_function()
Is there a name for this practice? Indirect import? Re-import??
Anyhow it works fine, and flake8 does not complain about import statements in module our_b. Is there any benefit here?
My instinct says, our_b should just import some_function from famous_package directly. Thanks in adv for your insights.