newbie Q: shortcuts for long module names?

Ken Godee ken at perfect-image.com
Tue Nov 12 10:39:11 EST 2002


Couldn't you also.....

from this.is.a.long.module.name import *

Calling a top level attribute from the module couldn't
get any shorter than that.

this.is.a.long.module.name.dothis()

vs

dothis()


> Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 21:34, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> >> Try
> >> 
> >> 	import this.is.a.long.module.name as name
> >> 
> >> or
> >> 
> >> 	import this.is.a.long.module.name as somethingElse
> > 
> > or
> >   from this.is.a.deep.package import name
> 
> You could even do:
> 
>     from this.is.a.deep.package import name as someOtherName
> 
> if you want to.





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