Proposal: Package aliases

[Leandro Lucarella]

Steven Schveighoffer, el 15 de mayo a las 10:55 me escribiste:
> I admit, after writing all this, it does seem unlikely that you would ever 
> need to use the import foo : bar = baz.

You sometimes do. I ran to that recently using Python, I had a module tipc
imported:

import tipc

And then I needed some class named tipc in another module (called
comm.msg), so this is not a solution:

import  tipc
from comm.msg import tipc

Solutions:

import tipc
from comm.msg import tipc as tipcmsg
# use tipc and tipcmsg

Or:

import tipc
import comm.msg as msg
# use tipc and msg.tipc
(this is what Bill Baxter proposed for D, I think)

Or:

import tipc
import comm.msg
# use tipc and comm.msg.tipc (which can be too long if typed too often)


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