In Clojure we have (using :require in the namespace declaration): (:require [foo.bar]) (:require [foo.bar :as quux]) (:require [foo.bar :refer [x y z]]) …et

In Clojure we have (using :require in the namespace declaration): (:require [foo.bar]) (:require [foo.bar :as quux]) (:require [foo.bar :refer [x y z]]) …etc There’s no reason you couldn’t have similar syntax in Python.