[Python-ideas] Importing public symbols and simultainiously privatizing them, is too noisy

[Ben Finney]

Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> writes:

> Has anyone else found this to be too syntactically noisy?
>
>   from module import Foo as _Foo, bar as _bar
>
> That is horrifically noisy IMO.

Agreed. What is wrong with::

    import lorem as _lorem

    do_something_with(_lorem.Foo)

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Ben Finney