'from X import a' versus 'import X; X.a'

Question

I\'ve seen some Python programmers use the following style fairly consistently (we\'ll call it style 1):

import some_module
# Use some_module.some_identifier in          


        

Answer 1

I personally try not to mess too much with my namespace, so in most situations I just do

import module  

or import module as mod

Only real diffrence is when I have a module with a single class that's used a lot. If I had sublclassed a list type to add some funcionality there, I'd use

from SuperImprovedListOverloadedWithFeatures import NewLIst
nl = NewList()

etc.