import X vs from x import *

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<notnorwegian at yahoo.se> wrote in message 
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> import Tkinter
> from Tkinter import *
>
> i have a program where if i comment out either of those import-
> statements i get an error.
>
> i thought they meant the same thing and from was supposed to be just
> to imort just a specific function and the * imports everything in the
> module.
> but aparently the above statements have diffrent meaning and i cant
> figure it out fromt he tutorials.

the first statement imports tkinter but everything inside of tkinter in 
stored in the tkinter namespace, in other words
if tkinter has a class tk, then tk would be accessed as tkinter.tk. for 
example
import tkinter
blah = tkinter.tk()
if you do from tkinter import *, then everything in tkinter is imported at 
the top level, so it would be
from tkinter import *
blah = tk()