Quick Question on importing..

[stephen]

just my curiosity...

Would there be any benefit from "adopting" an import from another import?

◈Example◈

import scene

from scene import ui as gui

class MyView(gui.View):
    ...

[ccc]

>>> from scene import *
>>> ui.ACTIVITY_INDICATOR_STYLE_WHITE_LARGE
0
>>> ui.ACTIVITY_INDICATOR_STYLE_WHITE
1
>>> class MyView(ui.View):
    ...

[stephen]

@ccc

im just wondering if there is any benefit such as to overhead when doing this or if it makes no difference if i use, in this case, ui from scene or if i use scene and separate ui import?

[ccc]

Same thing either way...

>>> import ui
>>> id(ui)
4543879592
>>> from scene import ui as gui
>>> id(gui)
4543879592
>>> ui == gui
True
>>> ui is gui
True

[stephen]

10-4 thanks @ccc

[JonB]

I think where this is usually used is when the module has a long name, and that you use a lot within your code, so for readability you use an abbreviation

import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

[stephen]

@JonB your statment on alias is correct 😃

But in this case we are speaking of Scene module importing ui and then Developer using ui module through scene with without making a separate import of ui in active script where __name__=="__main__"

Inside scene.py ...

from _scene2 import *
import _scene2

from scene_drawing import *

import math
from numbers import Number
from io import BytesIO
import ui

DEFAULT_ORIENTATION = 0
PORTRAIT = 1
LANDSCAPE = 2
...

inside myScript.py ...

from scene import ui

class MyView(ui.View):
    ...