[Python-ideas] from foo import bar.baz

[Devin Jeanpierre]

Has it irritated anyone else that this syntax is invalid? I've wanted
it a couple of times, to be equivalent to:

import foo.bar.baz
from foo import bar
del foo # but only if we didn't import foo already before"

The idea being that one wants access to foo.bar.baz under the name
bar.baz , for readability purposes or what have you.

I played around with adding this, but I seem to have really bad luck
with extending CPython...

-- Devin
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[Mathias Panzenböck]

+1 Indeed, I would have expected that "from foo import bar.baz" would work.

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Devin Jeanpierre
<jeanpi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has it irritated anyone else that this syntax is invalid? I've wanted
> it a couple of times, to be equivalent to:
>
>    import foo.bar.baz
>    from foo import bar
>    del foo # but only if we didn't import foo already before"
>
> The idea being that one wants access to foo.bar.baz under the name
> bar.baz , for readability purposes or what have you.

+1

> I played around with adding this, but I seem to have really bad luck
> with extending CPython...

TryPyPy? =)