Should I use numpy (or pylab) as a python environment by using `from numpy import *`?

Question

I use pylab (more specifically numpy) in all of my python programs­. The exceptions are very rare, if any. So far, I have taken the habit of importing numpy in the following

Answer 1

Let's tackle from the other way around, I get your code to debug, and I see that you call:

zeros(5)

it is tedious to go check around your source to see if this is np.zeros or you redefined it somewhere else, and since pylab has 930 names, this can happen easily.