[Tutor] Confused about "import Numeric" vs "import numpy" for Arrays

[S Python]

> In general "from <module> import *" is a very bad idea.
>
> import <module> imports a module into its own namespace (e.g., to
> access its functionality you would have to do "<module>.foo() and
> <module>.bar()" The form that you chose to use imports all of a
> module's contents into the current namespace. This means you can call
> "foo()" and "bar()" directly, but it also means that if you have coded
> a "foo()" and a "bar()" you will not have access to the functions in
> the module you just imported.
>
Timothy,

Thanks for the clarification.  I had always wondered what the difference was.

Samir