a concise way to import many modules with common namespace prefixes

Question

I often find myself importing classes from modules that only differ in the last part of their namespace, e.g:

from a.b.c.d import Class1
from a.b.c.e import Class2
from a.b.c.f import Class3

Is there some way for me to type the common a.b.c. part just once?

I know that if they all had exactly the same namespace, i.e.

from a.b.c import Class1
from a.b.c import Class2
from a.b.c import Class3

Then I could just type

from a.b.c import (Class1, Class2, Class3)

So for my first example, I tried things like

from a.b.c import (d.Class1 as Class1, 
                   e.Class2 as Class2, 
                   f.Class3 as Class3)

... but that didn't work.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If a is one of your own packages (or if you willing and abale to maintain a fork...) you can use the a.b.c package as a facade:

# a/b/c/__init__.py
from d import Class1
from e import Class2
from f import Class3

Then:

# client code:
from a.b.c import Class1, Class2, Class3

will work.

Answer 2

No, there is no syntax to import nested items as local names like that.

You could import the different modules, then assign to local names:

from a.b.c import d, e, f
Class1, Class2, Class3 = d.Class1, e.Class2, f.Class3
del d, e, f

but that's no more readable or concise.