I’d like to ask the community on what the best practice is for importing various fastai libraries? In most of the courses, I see that we import everything with a wildcard without aliases (ie from fastai.vision.all import *).
I know this is personal preference, but this makes it less obvious where certain methods/classes come from while learning. Is there a specific reason why courses choose this kind of imports instead of doing import fastai.vision.all as fv? Happy to read any further material on this.
A lot of Python coders recommend avoiding importing a whole library like this (using the import * syntax), because in large software projects it can cause problems. However, for interactive work such as in a Jupyter notebook, it works great. The fastai library is specially designed to support this kind of interactive use, and it will only import the necessary pieces into your environment.
from torch import nn
from fastai.callback.hook import summary
from fastai.callback.schedule import fit_one_cycle, lr_find
from fastai.callback.progress import ProgressCallback
from fastai.data.core import Datasets, DataLoaders, show_at
from fastai.data.external import untar_data, URLs
from fastai.data.transforms import Categorize, GrandparentSplitter, parent_label, ToTensor, IntToFloatTensor, Normalize
from fastai.layers import Flatten
from fastai.learner import Learner
from fastai.metrics import accuracy, CrossEntropyLossFlat
from fastai.vision.augment import CropPad, RandomCrop, PadMode
from fastai.vision.core import PILImageBW
from fastai.vision.utils import get_image_files
Though I usually do this only after I’m all done hacking away and I push my open source code, for readability