Please do not do any of the following when writing Python software. I have done all of these things at one time or another, FWIW: Use from foo.bar import *. You might know what foo.bar's __all__ is, but I don't, and I bet other people don't either. Don't make us look it up. How much time are you actually saving? You can be sure it's outweighed by the time you make other people waste by tracking d