import x as y

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.972902404.22504.python-list at python.org>,
Thomas Wouters  <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
>
>d = {}
>import string as d['string'] # store directly in dict, not in local namespace
>
>and
>
>from sys import version_info as (maj, min, pl, type, relno) # unpack tuple
>
>and
>
>import shelve
>from myoptimizedCPickle import Pickler as shelve.Pickler # store in shelve

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