Given this in Python 3.6.8: from dis import dis
def import_from_test(): from sys import path >>> dis(import_from_test) 2 0 LOAD_CONST 1 (0) 2 LOAD_CONST 2 (('path',)) 4 IMPORT_NAME 0 (sys) 6 IMPORT_FROM 1 (path) 8 STORE_FAST 0 (path) 10 POP_TOP 12 LOAD_CONST 0 (None) 14 RETURN_VALUE I don't understand why there's a POP_TOP there that I don't get for an import_name grammatical statement. IMPORT_NAME needs to eat the top two entries of the stack for level and the from-list. BTW I don't know what level is for either since my science projects have always had it be zero, but that's another question. IMPORT_NAME will the push the module on to the stack. IMPORT_FROM will import path from the module on the stack, and push that result on the stack. STORE_FAST will store path for use, finally "modifying the namespace." At this point, my conceptual stack is empty. If I POP_TOP then I have nothing to pop and the world would end. Yet, it doesn't. What am I missing? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list