We have in the past looked at a lot of content provided by the USGS. The USGS is the provider of the data for the ‘earthquakes layer’ in Google Earth. We also looked at some of their future plans, ...
Wired: It Just Got Easier to See a Cool Historical Maps Collection
It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them—date back ...
In Python, what exactly does import * import? Does it import init.py found in the containing folder? For example, is it necessary to declare from project.model import init, or is from proj...
I'm wondering if there's any difference between the code fragment from urllib import request and the fragment import urllib.request or if they are interchangeable. If they are interchangeable, wh...
What does the @ mean inside an import path? - Stack Overflow
What does the @ symbol do in javascript imports? - Stack Overflow
Should I use from foo import bar OR import foo.bar as bar when importing a module and there is no need/wish for changing the name (bar)? Are there any differences? Does it matter?
from ... import OR import ... as for modules - Stack Overflow
Or you can import the "default export." What exactly the default export contains is determined by the library's author, but usually the default export is equivalent to the syntax in the prior section of this answer.
There's a hell of a difference between importing specific named identifiers 'from module import X,Y,Z vs 'from module import *. The latter pollutes your namespace and can give unpredictable results depending on what's going on in module. Worse still is doing from module import * with multiple modules.