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On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:43:02 GMT, Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> Although a simple import X retaining the name-space ref does make it easy 
> to identify the origins of a function (at the expense of more typing)

	Well, there is the middle point...

import some_long_module_name as slmn

which retains the individual namespace, but reduces the amount of
typing.
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