Do more imported objects affect performance

[Kirk Strauser]

At 2008-12-01T11:30:44Z, Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> writes:

> Importing the module is actualy slower...  If you import the name into
> your namespace then there is only one lookup to do.  If you import the
> module there are two.

Note that if you're importing the entire module but want to call a function
that many times, you can do something like:

    import timeit
    Timer = timeit.Timer
    for _ in xrange(1000000):
        Timer
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Kirk Strauser
The Day Companies