astropy/astropy — comment on commit 7a7884fef8747dc90c5dd4abfe76c8dad4da1b8b
File: astropy/setup_helpers.py line 58
By iguananaut:

I didn't know the "as" syntax was allowed in 2.6, but that being the case I agree it should be the guideline (especially in modules like this that are used at build-time, but might as well make it standard everywhere).