The Import Statement

• brings code from the module to a program
• any code in the mdule is executed
• Function and class definitions aren’t executed, but are defined
• has options that affect how objects are referred to

Namespace

• Importing also places modules in the global namespace
  • module name
  • reference to module contents
• Objects in namespace referring to using dot notation: module.object Object and module can be access using the dot notation, where we have the module name, the dot and then the object name.

Import Module

Syntax

import module

Import Alias

import module as alias

• useful for long cumbersome module names

From Import

• import specific objects into namespace

from module import objname

From Import Alias

from module import objname as alias

Multiple From Import

from module import obj1, obj2,..