OK, thanks, that's what I thought, and I'd prefer not to have to keep typing firedrake so I'll leave it as is.


From: firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk <firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk> on behalf of Lawrence Mitchell <lawrence.mitchell@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: 17 November 2016 15:03:13
To: firedrake
Subject: Re: [firedrake] par_loop error
 


On 17/11/16 14:53, Shipton, Jemma wrote:
> heh, yes, Andrew and I were talking about this yesterday. I'm not
> entirely sure why we don't use from firedrake import * in gusto -
> would anyone like to convince me that we should/shouldn't?

You don't get to control what variables we put in the namespace.
Therefore it's safer for you to import what you need.  Or else use:

import firedrake

and access everything as

firedrake.Foo

Lawrence