comments from Rick White and Perry Greenfield regarding this issue:
p.1 (and others): I've gradually developed the opinion that having
'from iraf import images' load the package 'images' was a bad idea
and have been wondering whether we should deprecate it. I know
we haven't agreed on that, but as a start I would recommend that
we not emphasize it much in the documentation. For this example,
instead of using the import to load images, add this to the
run_imstat function:
iraf.images()
In other words, do what you do in IRAF and just load the package by
executing it. I'm open to argument on this, but if we got rid
of this functionality we could eliminate the overloading of the
import mechanism (which would be a Good Thing.)
So if this variant works now, I'd agree that we should indicate
that the import scheme should be deprecated.[pg]
We might consider asking for user feedback on the issue just in case
there are people out there that really love 'from iraf import package'.
(Unlikely, I'd guess.)
