[Python-ideas] Allow 'import star' with namespaces

[Ethan Furman]

Brendan Moloney wrote:
> dag.odenhall at gmail.com wrote:
>> I like this idea, except it's inconsistent with from-import-star, the
>> latter which does *not* get you sub-packages or modules.
> 
> Georg Brandl [g.brandl at gmx.net] wrote:
>> And that's for a reason: it's not easy (I think it's even impossible, because
>> for example individual submodules can change __path__) to determine all
>> importable submodules of a package.
> 
>> So ``import pkg.*`` would not have any behavior other than ``import pkg``.
> 
> When I said all _public_ sub-packages and modules I was referring to those
 > listed in the  __all__ attribute of 'pkg'.  Thus it would behave in 
the exact
 > same way as from-import-star except you don't pollute the current 
namespace.


I'm not catching the vision -- could you put together a short example 
that would illustrate?

~Ethan~