On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 2:03 PM Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:

> That is an extremely subtle shift for what `import x.y` does compared to
> `(import x.y)`. That requires a context switch of not only seeing `import`
> in an expression context, but that the statement also acts differently in
> terms of what is returned by the equivalent statement. I really don't to
> try and teach that distinction to a newcomer.
>

Frankly, there are already an overwhelming-to-a-newcomer number of ways to
import modules. We really don't want nore!

-CHB


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