Python Module Import: Single-line vs Multi-line

Question

So this is just a simple question. In python when importing modules, what is the difference between this:

from module import a, b, c, d

and

Answer 1

To add to some of the questions raised from inspectorG4dget's answer, you can also use tuples to do multi-line imports when folder structures start getting deeply nested or you have modules with obtuse names.

from some.module.submodule.that_has_long_names import (
    first_item,
    second_item,
    more_imported_items_with_really_enormously_long_names_that_might_be_too_descriptive,
    that_would_certainly_not_fit,
    on_one_line,
)

This also works, though I'm not a fan of this style:

from module import (a_ton, of, modules, that_seem, to_keep, needing,
                    to_be, added, to_the_list, of_required_items)