Why it's a convention to import pandas as pd?
<p>I see that in the pandas documentation they recommend importing pandas as:</p>

<pre><code>import pandas as pd
</code></pre>

<p>I can see some sense in doing that for when you are using pandas in an interactive context (as with a ipython/jupyter notebook), but I've seen it in production code and in widespread libraries (like Bokeh: <a href="https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/search?p=2&amp;q=pd&amp;type=Code&amp;utf8=%E2%9C%93" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/search?p=2&amp;q=pd&amp;type=Code&amp;utf8=%E2%9C%93</a>). Is there a reason for that apart from convention? </p>