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		jzwinck on Dec 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If I were designing Python's import from scratch You can use "import longmodulename as mn"--many people do this today, and it isn't nearly as harmful as "*".

zo1 on Dec 5, 2015 [–]

Overall, I think many would agree that "import " and "from x import " are more harmful than any of the alternatives. It's a laziness code-smell and will come back to bite you.

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