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Dominus
Dominus

Reputation: 998

Shortening deep imports / long namespaces

I am dealing with a package with long namespaces, and I was wondering if there is any way to shorten it. For example, some imports look like

from LongNamespace.EvenLongerNamespace.AnotherOne.Class1 import Class1
from LongNamespace.EvenLongerNamespace.AnotherOne.Class2 import Class2
etc.

What I hoped would work is something like

Short = LongNamespace.EvenLongerNamespace.AnotherOne
from Short.Class1 import Class1
from Short.Class2 import Class2
etc.

but unfortunately that doesn't work. I know that you can do

t = import LongNamespace.EvenLongerNamespace.AnotherOne
t.Class1

But that's not clean, I'd rather keep the from x import y structure

Upvotes: 2

Views: 147

Answers (1)

blhsing
blhsing

Reputation: 106455

Class1 and Class2 are attributes of the module AnotherOne, so you can assign them to variables like this:

from LongNamespace.EvenLongerNamespace import AnotherOne
Class1 = AnotherOne.Class1
Class2 = AnotherOne.Class2

You can also import several names in one statement:

from LongNamespace.EvenLongerNamespace.AnotherOne import Class1, Class2

Upvotes: 2

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