Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps Transcripts
Chapter: App 4: Journal app and file I/O
Lecture: Core concept: Importing modules and packages
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The concept of importing modules and packages is very central to Python
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and it's what really provides the ability to
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have Python be this so called "batteries included" language
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where if there is some sort of feature that you need,
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there is a few lines of code you write and boom, you have it.
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Typically, it've to import some amazing package
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that's going to solve your problem.
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Now we saw there is three ways that we can import,
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there is actually more than that but I think this is enough to get us started.
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We can say import, name of the package or module,
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and that both allows and requires us to maintain the namespace
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down below you can see os.path.exists,
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or we can import individual entities, functions,
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variables, classes and so on out of the modules
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like from os import path, that's ok,
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it's not amazingly good, but it's not bad,
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and that lets us write style too, we could take the lazy way
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and import everything out of the os
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regardless whether we are going to use it,
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that's not such a good idea you kind of get into name conflicts
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and it's not very obvious what you are actually getting from that module
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and where are you using it below,
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that would still let you write style to code below.
