[openstack-dev] Import ordering for oslo imports
Mark McLoughlin
markmc at redhat.com
Fri May 31 14:42:27 UTC 2013
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 10:33 -0400, David Ripton wrote:
> hacking's HACKING.rst says:
>
> {{stdlib imports in human alphabetical order}}
> \n
> {{third-party lib imports in human alphabetical order}}
> \n
> {{nova imports in human alphabetical order}}
> \n
> \n
> {{begin your code}}
>
> But should oslo imports (in code outside oslo itself) go in the
> third-party section or the project section? oslo is kind of both --
> it's a separate project but it's part of OpenStack, not truly third-party.
>
> I've seen it both ways in code I've reviewed lately, and it would be
> nice to be consistent.
If you mean e.g. oslo.config imports, they should go in the
"third-party" section - i.e. it's code from outside the nova repo
If you mean code copied from oslo-incubator, then that does live in the
nova repo and should go in the 'nova imports' section
Cheers,
Mark.
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