[Tutor] Possible to import imports?

[Kent Johnson]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Rob Kirkpatrick
<robert.d.kirkpatrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've googled a bit and tried some things on my own, but can't seem to
> determine if it's possible to declare some standard library imports in one
> package/module then import that package/module somewhere else and reap the
> benefit of those initial imports.
>
> For example, if I have a setup like this:
>
> foo
>   __init__.py
>   bar
>     __init__.py
>     hello.py
>
> Could I put "import datetime" in foo's __init__.py and do an import of foo
> from hello.py and start using datetime in hello.py without importing
> datetime specifically in hello.py?

Yes but it will be foo.datetime. The 'import datetime' in
foo.__init__.py binds the name datetime in foo's module namespace.

>  All the examples I see import all the
> necessary standard library mods in the script/module that specifically uses
> them so either what I want to do is not possible or a bad idea.  Thoughts?

Why do this? For clarity, import the modules you need in the modules
that need them.
  import foo
  foo.datetime...
is just obscure IMO.

Kent