Coding Style for v1

[jeremy (Jeremy Howard)]

@mcskinner

Now that I’ve started out by solving some problems with my contributions

Indeed you have, thank you.

I would say I care more about importing style, since I’ve been burnt by the import * from some_module convention (naming collisions between old and new NLP files).

You may want to check the previous discussions first, since I think your issue is already dealt with there.

Recommendation: replace import * with 'import as

I would like to suggest to discourage the usage of import *. Instead use import with aliases. Eg it is very common for us to write: import numpy as np. I suggest similar style should be encouraged everywhere instead of import *. It provides better readability of the code, avoids namespace pollution and naming conflicts etc.