[Python-ideas] from foo import bar.baz

Has it irritated anyone else that this syntax is invalid? I've wanted it a couple of times, to be equivalent to: import foo.bar.baz from foo import bar del foo # but only if we didn't import foo already before" The idea being that one wants access to foo.bar.baz under the name bar.baz , for readability purposes or what have you. I played around with adding this, but I seem to have really bad luck with extending CPython... -- Devin