combining namespaces when importing two modules

[Fredrik Lundh]

Donnal Walter wrote:
>I would like to be able to write something like:
>
> import dcw as dw
> import xyz as dw
>
> such that the 'dw' namespace includes definitions from both dcw and xyz,
> but in the script above names from dcw1 are lost. How can I combine the
> two? (I'd rather not use 'import *'

why not?  it's designed to make it easy to merge namespaces, so
why not use it?

    $ more dw.py
    from dcw import *
    from xyz import *

    $ more myscript.py
    import dw
    ...

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