importing: what does "from" do?

[John Gordon]

In <n7qugv$a3j$4 at dont-email.me> "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo at gmail.com> writes:

> > How did this error come up?  Did the code work previously?  If so, what
> > changed?

> The developers of this legacy code had this as well as other functions
> duplicated throughout the system, in order to avoid confronting these
> issues.

Yes, but did the code work previously?  If so, what changed?

> I'm trying to untangle the mess - without rewriting thousands of lines
> of application code.

At worst you'd have to move some things into a new module, and change the
statements that import those things.  You shouldn't have to rewrite any of
the actual code.

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