Consider sorting imports alphabetically.

[Spaceenter]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20762662/whats-the-correct-way-to-sort-python-import-x-and-from-x-import-y-statement

[babbush]

Okay, it is a good idea to decide on a convention about this. So if we do alphabetical and the import statement starts with "from", does that count as an "f"? For instance, is the following sorted properly:

from FermionOperators import FermionTerm from QubitOperators import QubitTerm import os import projectq import sys

[Spaceenter]

I guess there is really no right or wrong, we just need to pick up one.

It seems like Google's python code follows the convention:

import os import projectq import sys

from FermionOperators import FermionTerm from QubitOperators import QubitTerm

...

But either is fine, and we could write the guide in README or so.

[babbush]

Sounds good to me. Indeed, I think we should clarify this convention in the README and then update the code.