Steve D'Aprano at 2016/11/16 8:33:23AM wrote: > `import foo` imports the module foo, that is all. (To be pedantic: it is > *nominally* a module. By design, it could be any object at all.) > > `from foo import *` imports all the visible public attributes of foo. > > They do completely different things, equivalent to something similar to: > > five = int('5') > > > versus: > > > _tmp = int('5') > for name in dir(_tmp): > if not name.startswith('_'): > locals()[name] = getattr(_tmp, name) > del _tmp
This is far beyond my comprehension:-( --Jach -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list