Python random function

Question

I\'m having problems with Python\'s import random function. It seems that import random and from random import random are importing different thing

Answer 1

import random 

includes the module into the namespace under the name 'random'.

from random import random

includes the function'random' from the namespace 'random' into the global namespace.

So in the first example, you would call random.random, and in the second, you would call random. Both would access the same function.

Similarly,

from random import randint

would import randint into the global namespace, so you could simply call randint instead of random.randint.