# Allow import ... from ... notation

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/allow-import-from-notation/22285>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [December 29, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/allow-import-from-notation/22285 "2022-12-29T22:28:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![2pi360](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/2pi360/32/5948_2.png) [@2pi360](https://discuss.python.org/u/2pi360)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/allow-import-from-notation/22285/1 "2022-12-29T22:28:16Z")

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**Idea:**  
Allow

```auto
import staff from module

```

syntaxes in addition to usual

```auto
from module import stuff

```

**Motivation:**  
I often need import stuff from a module, so I write code like this

```auto
from pocket import ring

# some code using ring

```

As my code grows, I often realise that I need to import more stuff from the same module, so I change my code into.

```auto
import pocket

# some code using pocket.ring, pocket.nothing, pocket.hand

```

As Im finishing my code, I sometime come to conclusion that I dont need any other stuff from the module, so I clean my code back into

```auto
from pocket import ring, nothing, hand

# some code using ring, nothing, hand

```

I make these edits back and forth multiple times during the development. Each of this edits require me to flip the order of `import` and `pocket`, which requires copy-pasting or deleting-and-rewriting the symbols. Therefore, I suggest to allow writing

```auto
import ring from pocket 

```

and

```auto
import ring, nothing, hand from pocket 

```

so the order of `ring` and `pocket` would always remain the same, and I could save a few keystrokes

**Cost/Benefit analysis**  
I do realise that the benefits from my suggestion are extremely small, but cost should not be very hight either, right? The implementation should not break anything, does not add anything new…

My hope is that the rest of the developers will come out saying “damn, I hated the same thing all along, lets change this!”

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