[Python-Dev] 'import as'

[Greg Ewing]

Gordon McMillan <gmcm@hypernet.com>:

> isn't the effect of "import goom.bah as snarf" the same as "from goom
> import bah as snarf"?

Only if goom.bah is a submodule or subpackage, I think.
Otherwise "import goom.bah" doesn't work in the first place.

I'm not sure that "import goom.bah as snarf" should
be allowed, even if goom.bah is a module. Should the
resulting object be referred to as snarf, snarf.bah
or goom.snarf?

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