how to include a file -- not import??

[Eugene Goodrich]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 23:52:46 -0500, "Darrell" <news at dorb.com> wrote:

>from filename import *
>
>Doesn't create another namespace. Avoid this in most cases.
>

What are the implications of your statement for Tkinter?  Is that one
of the exceptions?  I understand and respect the differences in what
happens to the namespaces, and I try to avoid 'from x import *', but
I'm wondering where the Python community buckles on this issue.

     -Eugene
import binascii; print binascii.a2b_base64 ('ZXVnZW5lQGlzb21lZGlhLmNvbQ==')