from foo import bar and the ast module

[Dan Stromberg]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 7:14 AM Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:08 AM Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > In 'from foo import bar':
> >
> > With the ast module, I see how to get bar, but I do not yet see how to
> get
> > the foo.
> >
> > There are clearly ast.Import and ast.ImportFrom, but I do not see the foo
> > part in ast.ImportFrom.
> >
> > ?
>
> >>> import ast
> >>> ast.dump(ast.parse("from foo import bar"))
> "Module(body=[ImportFrom(module='foo', names=[alias(name='bar')],
> level=0)], type_ignores=[])"
> >>> ast.parse("from foo import bar").body[0].module
> 'foo'
>

With 'from . import bar', I get a module of None.

 Does this seem strange?