Module Usage

Clients can use the simple module file we just wrote by running an import or from statement. Both statements find, compile, and run a module file’s code, if it hasn’t yet been loaded. The chief difference is that import fetches the module as a whole, so you must qualify to fetch its names; in contrast, from fetches (or copies) specific names out of the module.

Let’s see what this means in terms of code. All of the following examples wind up calling the printer function defined in the prior section’s module1.py module file, but in different ways.