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no-wildcard-import
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Using :code:`import *` is a bad habit which pollutes your namespace, hinders
debugging, and interferes with static analysis of code. For those reasons, we
do want to limit the use of :code:`import *` in the ansible code. Change our
code to import the specific names that you need instead.
Examples of unfixed code:
.. code-block:: python
from ansible.module_utils.six import *
if isinstance(variable, string_types):
do_something(variable)
from ansible.module_utils.basic import *
module = AnsibleModule()
Examples of fixed code:
.. code-block:: python
from ansible.module_utils import six
if isinstance(variable, six.string_types):
do_something(variable)
from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
module = AnsibleModule()