[Tutor] Question on "import foobar" vs "from foobar import *"

[Rob Cherry]

Still trying to get the hang of some python intricacies, but this one
has come up a few times.  Beyond the obvious syntactic niceties what
is the difference between importing with and without the "from"
syntax?

Its nice for example to do this -

from socket import *
googleip = gethostbyname("www.google.com")

vs

import socket
googleip = socket.gethostbyname("www.google.com")

Is there any difference between these concepts?  Is there an easy
google search term for me to research the difference to death?

Thanks in advance!

Rob