Since we recommend one module per import line, reflect this also in the

documentation.

Doc/howto/doanddont.rst

@@ -267,7 +267,8 @@ sequence with comparable semantics, for example, yet many people write their own
 :func:`max`/:func:`min`. Another highly useful function is :func:`reduce`. A
 classical use of :func:`reduce` is something like ::
 
-   import sys, operator
+   import operator
+   import sys
    nums = map(float, sys.argv[1:])
    print reduce(operator.add, nums)/len(nums)
 

Doc/howto/webservers.rst

@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ simple CGI program::
     # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
 
     # enable debugging
-    import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
+    import cgitb
+    cgitb.enable()
 
     print "Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8"
     print
@@ -279,7 +280,9 @@ following WSGI-application::
     # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
 
     from cgi import escape
-    import sys, os
+    import os
+    import sys
+
     from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
 
     def app(environ, start_response):

Doc/includes/sqlite3/adapter_datetime.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+import datetime
 import sqlite3
-import datetime, time
+import time
 
 def adapt_datetime(ts):
     return time.mktime(ts.timetuple())

Doc/library/asyncore.rst

@@ -246,7 +246,8 @@ asyncore Example basic HTTP client
 Here is a very basic HTTP client that uses the :class:`dispatcher` class to
 implement its socket handling::
 
-   import asyncore, socket
+   import asyncore
+   import socket
 
    class http_client(asyncore.dispatcher):
 

Doc/library/cgi.rst

@@ -67,16 +67,20 @@ Begin by writing ``import cgi``.  Do not use ``from cgi import *`` --- the
 module defines all sorts of names for its own use or for backward compatibility
 that you don't want in your namespace.
 
-When you write a new script, consider adding the line::
+When you write a new script, consider adding the following::
 
-   import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
+   import cgitb
+
+   cgitb.enable()
 
 This activates a special exception handler that will display detailed reports in
 the Web browser if any errors occur.  If you'd rather not show the guts of your
 program to users of your script, you can have the reports saved to files
-instead, with a line like this::
+instead, with something like this::
 
-   import cgitb; cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir="/tmp")
+   import cgitb
+
+   cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir="/tmp")
 
 It's very helpful to use this feature during script development. The reports
 produced by :mod:`cgitb` provide information that can save you a lot of time in

Doc/library/configparser.rst

@@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ RawConfigParser Objects
    load the required file or files using :meth:`readfp` before calling :meth:`read`
    for any optional files::
 
-      import ConfigParser, os
+      import ConfigParser
+      import os
 
       config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
       config.readfp(open('defaults.cfg'))

Doc/library/cookielib.rst

@@ -747,7 +747,8 @@ Examples
 
 The first example shows the most common usage of :mod:`cookielib`::
 
-   import cookielib, urllib2
+   import cookielib
+   import urllib2
    cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
    r = opener.open("http://example.com/")
@@ -755,7 +756,9 @@ The first example shows the most common usage of :mod:`cookielib`::
 This example illustrates how to open a URL using your Netscape, Mozilla, or Lynx
 cookies (assumes Unix/Netscape convention for location of the cookies file)::
 
-   import os, cookielib, urllib2
+   import cookielib
+   import os
+   import urllib2
    cj = cookielib.MozillaCookieJar()
    cj.load(os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"], ".netscape/cookies.txt"))
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))

Doc/library/crypt.rst

@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ this module.
 
 A simple example illustrating typical use::
 
-   import crypt, getpass, pwd
+   import crypt
+   import getpass
+   import pwd
 
    def login():
        username = raw_input('Python login:')

Doc/library/csv.rst

@@ -460,7 +460,8 @@ Registering a new dialect::
 
 A slightly more advanced use of the reader --- catching and reporting errors::
 
-   import csv, sys
+   import csv
+   import sys
    filename = "some.csv"
    reader = csv.reader(open(filename, "rb"))
    try:
@@ -506,7 +507,9 @@ For all other encodings the following :class:`UnicodeReader` and
 parameter in their constructor and make sure that the data passes the real
 reader or writer encoded as UTF-8::
 
-   import csv, codecs, cStringIO
+   import codecs
+   import cStringIO
+   import csv
 
    class UTF8Recoder:
        """

Doc/library/difflib.rst

@@ -708,7 +708,11 @@ It is also contained in the Python source distribution, as
 
    """
 
-   import sys, os, time, difflib, optparse
+   import difflib
+   import os
+   import optparse
+   import sys
+   import time
 
    def main():
         # Configure the option parser

Doc/library/doctest.rst

@@ -951,9 +951,11 @@ Python 2.4, :mod:`doctest`'s :class:`Tester` class is deprecated, and
 test suites from modules and text files containing doctests.  These test suites
 can then be run using :mod:`unittest` test runners::
 
-   import unittest
    import doctest
-   import my_module_with_doctests, and_another
+   import unittest
+
+   import my_module_with_doctests
+   import my_other_module_with_doctests
 
    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
    for mod in my_module_with_doctests, and_another:

Doc/library/fcntl.rst

@@ -133,7 +133,9 @@ The module defines the following functions:
 
 Examples (all on a SVR4 compliant system)::
 
-   import struct, fcntl, os
+   import fcntl
+   import os
+   import struct
 
    f = open(...)
    rv = fcntl.fcntl(f, fcntl.F_SETFL, os.O_NDELAY)

Doc/library/getopt.rst

@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ Using long option names is equally easy:
 
 In a script, typical usage is something like this::
 
-   import getopt, sys
+   import getopt
+   import sys
 
    def main():
        try:

Doc/library/gl.rst

@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ The following functions are non-standard or have special argument conventions:
 
 Here is a tiny but complete example GL program in Python::
 
-   import gl, GL, time
+   import gl
+   import GL
+   import time
 
    def main():
        gl.foreground()

Doc/library/imaplib.rst

@@ -521,7 +521,8 @@ IMAP4 Example
 Here is a minimal example (without error checking) that opens a mailbox and
 retrieves and prints all messages::
 
-   import getpass, imaplib
+   import getpass
+   import imaplib
 
    M = imaplib.IMAP4()
    M.login(getpass.getuser(), getpass.getpass())

Doc/library/imputil.rst

@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ This code is intended to be read, not executed.  However, it does work
 
 ::
 
-   import sys, imp, __builtin__
+   import __builtin__
+   import imp
+   import sys
 
    # Replacement for __import__()
    def import_hook(name, globals=None, locals=None, fromlist=None):

Doc/library/logging.rst

@@ -1347,7 +1347,8 @@ Let's say you want to send logging events across a network, and handle them at
 the receiving end. A simple way of doing this is attaching a
 :class:`SocketHandler` instance to the root logger at the sending end::
 
-   import logging, logging.handlers
+   import logging
+   import logging.handlers
 
    rootLogger = logging.getLogger('')
    rootLogger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
@@ -2600,7 +2601,9 @@ properly preceded with the binary-encoded length, as the new logging
 configuration::
 
     #!/usr/bin/env python
-    import socket, sys, struct
+    import socket
+    import struct
+    import sys
 
     data_to_send = open(sys.argv[1], "r").read()
 

Doc/library/modulefinder.rst

@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ Example usage of :class:`ModuleFinder`
 
 The script that is going to get analyzed later on (bacon.py)::
 
-   import re, itertools
+   import itertools
+   import re
 
    try:
        import baconhameggs

Doc/library/pickle.rst

@@ -708,7 +708,8 @@ The following example reads the resulting pickled data.  When reading a
 pickle-containing file, you should open the file in binary mode because you
 can't be sure if the ASCII or binary format was used. ::
 
-   import pprint, pickle
+   import pickle
+   import pprint
 
    pkl_file = open('data.pkl', 'rb')
 

Doc/library/poplib.rst

@@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ POP3 Example
 Here is a minimal example (without error checking) that opens a mailbox and
 retrieves and prints all messages::
 
-   import getpass, poplib
+   import getpass
+   import poplib
 
    M = poplib.POP3('localhost')
    M.user(getpass.getuser())

Doc/library/signal.rst

@@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ serial device that may not be turned on, which would normally cause the
 before opening the file; if the operation takes too long, the alarm signal will
 be sent, and the handler raises an exception. ::
 
-   import signal, os
+   import os
+   import signal
 
    def handler(signum, frame):
        print 'Signal handler called with signal', signum

Doc/library/sqlite3.rst

@@ -423,7 +423,8 @@ Connection Objects
    Example::
 
       # Convert file existing_db.db to SQL dump file dump.sql
-      import sqlite3, os
+      import os
+      import sqlite3
 
       con = sqlite3.connect('existing_db.db')
       with open('dump.sql', 'w') as f:

Doc/library/ssl.rst

@@ -481,7 +481,9 @@ Client-side operation
 This example connects to an SSL server, prints the server's address and certificate,
 sends some bytes, and reads part of the response::
 
-   import socket, ssl, pprint
+   import pprint
+   import socket
+   import ssl
 
    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
 
@@ -535,7 +537,8 @@ For server operation, typically you'd need to have a server certificate, and pri
 You'd open a socket, bind it to a port, call :meth:`listen` on it, then start waiting for clients
 to connect::
 
-   import socket, ssl
+   import socket
+   import ssl
 
    bindsocket = socket.socket()
    bindsocket.bind(('myaddr.mydomain.com', 10023))

Doc/library/stat.rst

@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ on the implementation of the underlying system call.
 
 Example::
 
-   import os, sys
+   import os
+   import sys
    from stat import *
 
    def walktree(top, callback):

Doc/library/sunaudio.rst

@@ -135,11 +135,13 @@ methods (except ``control`` objects which only provide :meth:`getinfo`,
 The audio device supports asynchronous notification of various events, through
 the SIGPOLL signal.  Here's an example of how you might enable this in Python::
 
+   import fcntl
+   import signal
+   import STROPTS
+
    def handle_sigpoll(signum, frame):
        print 'I got a SIGPOLL update'
 
-   import fcntl, signal, STROPTS
-
    signal.signal(signal.SIGPOLL, handle_sigpoll)
    fcntl.ioctl(audio_obj.fileno(), STROPTS.I_SETSIG, STROPTS.S_MSG)
 

Doc/library/termios.rst

@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ technique using a separate :func:`tcgetattr` call and a :keyword:`try` ...
 exactly no matter what happens::
 
    def getpass(prompt = "Password: "):
-       import termios, sys
+       import sys
+       import termios
        fd = sys.stdin.fileno()
        old = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
        new = termios.tcgetattr(fd)

Doc/library/traceback.rst

@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ less useful than) the standard Python interactive interpreter loop.  For a more
 complete implementation of the interpreter loop, refer to the :mod:`code`
 module. ::
 
-   import sys, traceback
+   import sys
+   import traceback
 
    def run_user_code(envdir):
        source = raw_input(">>> ")
@@ -165,7 +166,8 @@ module. ::
 The following example demonstrates the different ways to print and format the
 exception and traceback::
 
-   import sys, traceback
+   import sys
+   import traceback
 
    def lumberjack():
        bright_side_of_death()

Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst

@@ -551,7 +551,8 @@ transport.  The following example shows how:
 
 ::
 
-   import xmlrpclib, httplib
+   import httplib
+   import xmlrpclib
 
    class ProxiedTransport(xmlrpclib.Transport):
        def set_proxy(self, proxy):

Doc/tutorial/interactive.rst

@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ Automatic completion of variable and module names is optionally available.  To
 enable it in the interpreter's interactive mode, add the following to your
 startup file: [#]_  ::
 
-   import rlcompleter, readline
+   import readline
+   import rlcompleter
    readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')
 
 This binds the :kbd:`Tab` key to the completion function, so hitting the

Doc/tutorial/stdlib2.rst

@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ case is running I/O in parallel with computations in another thread.
 The following code shows how the high level :mod:`threading` module can run
 tasks in background while the main program continues to run::
 
-   import threading, zipfile
+   import threading
+   import zipfile
 
    class AsyncZip(threading.Thread):
        def __init__(self, infile, outfile):

Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst

@@ -473,7 +473,8 @@ statement both starts a database transaction and acquires a thread lock::
 Finally, the :func:`closing(object)` function returns *object* so that it can be
 bound to a variable, and calls ``object.close`` at the end of the block. ::
 
-   import urllib, sys
+   import sys
+   import urllib
    from contextlib import closing
 
    with closing(urllib.urlopen('http://www.yahoo.com')) as f: