importing: what does "from" do?

[John Gordon]

In <n7qpel$a3j$1 at dont-email.me> "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo at gmail.com> writes:

>   from utilities import hexdump

>     ImportError: cannot import name hexdump

The most likely explanation here is that the 'utilities' module simply
does not contain something named 'hexdump'.

Have you inspected the 'utilities' module?  Does it, in fact, contain
something named 'hexdump'?

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