circular imports (don't yell!)

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> Also, do you realize that "from X import *" is a bad idea
> in general?  I'll assume that was just something you did
> to try to reproduce the problem in a small sample program...
> 

in his defense, the gui libs often expect you have done a from X import *. 
otherwise your commands are fiendishly long and ugly.

win = gui.create_window(gui.top_level, gui.foo, gui.bar)

and so on.