Python: how do you handle variables and modules of the same name?

Question

I'd like to use a module and store the result of calling one of it's methods into a variable with the same name as the module, but that would overwrite the module. How to best handle this?

Example:

from something.deep.library import users
users = users.get_users()

Obviously, it's not the best practice to overwrite the library with a variable. How can I best handle this? I've tried many things: some are ugly and some don't work.

# doesn't work
from something.deep import library.users
users = library.users.get_users()

# ugly and inconsistent across the codebase
from something.deep.library import users as library_users
users = library_users.get_users()

Answer 1

Python best practices :

import library
users = library.users.get_users()

Using import - as notation is another good way, but imho first one is more clean and readable