[Tutor] Question on "import foobar" vs "from foobar import *"

[Alan Gauld]

"Rob Cherry" <pythontutor at lxrb.com> wrote

> Extending on this advice somewhat - is it *ever* correct to "import 
> foobar".

Yes, it is *usually* correct to "import foobar" and rarely correct to "from 
foobar".
The exception being if you only need one or two names from foobar, but
usually you need a lot more, in which case use import foobar.

To save typing you can give foobar a shorter name:

import foobar as fb

For some reason that convenience feature doesn't get mentioned
all that often but I use it a lot.

HTH,


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