Core Python Programming

12.5. Importing Module Attributes

It is possible to import specific module elements into your own module. By this, we really mean importing specific names from the module into the current namespace. For this purpose, we can use the from-import statement, whose syntax is:

						from
						module
						import
						name1[, name2[, … nameN]]

12.5.1. Names Imported into Current Namespace

Calling from-import brings the name into the current namespace, meaning that you do not use the attribute/dotted notation to access the module identifier. For example, to access a variable named var in module module that was imported with:

							from
							module
							import
							var
						

we would use var by itself. There is no need to reference the module since you just imported.

It is also possible to import ...