I do "import turbogears as tg". "turbogears" is too long and ugly for a framework module, especially if it's scattered all over your code, plus I don't like compoundwords. I never use "from X import *" because Guido says it's bad, and it requires intimate knowledge of the imported module to recognize which names come from it. The only exception is something like TkInter where you might use fifty names like .pack(side=N), and listing each of them is just too much.
As for whether "import MODULE" or "from MODULE import NAME" is better, it just depends on the situation. The former gives you a sense of which package you're using. The latter is self-adjusting if you move the object to a different module; you just change the import line rather than every line. -- Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ([EMAIL PROTECTED] address is semi-reliable)
