John Salerno johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Wed Oct 18 16:59:06 EDT 2006

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Setash wrote:

> Also, I have seen the following syntax used once before, and havent
> found any documentation on it, any comments as to use, where to find
> docs, etc?:
> 
>     from module import x as name
>     name.function()

All that does is give you a method for renaming a particularly unruly 
module name to something more manageable, such as this:

from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET

Then you can use "ET" to qualify your function calls and such.

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