Import classes from submodules into (aliased) namespace

Question

I have the following package structure:

package_name/
    __init__.py
    some_module.py
    another_module.py
    # other classes

I'm using this package from another Python file, in which I would like to do the following:

• declare an alias for package_name

   import package_name as pn 

• and refer to classes inside some_module.py , another_module.py , etc. as follows:

   instance = pn.SomeClass(pn.AnotherClass(x, y)) 

  ie omitting the module name and instead using only the package name alias.

Something like this:

import package_name as pn
from package_name import some_module to pn

Is this, or anything equivalent, possible?

---

I can do this:

from package_name.some_module import SomeClass
from package_name.another_module import AnotherClass
instance = SomeClass(AnotherClass(x, y))

and this:

import package_name.some_module
import package_name.another_module
instance = pn.some_module.SomeClass(pn.some_module.AnotherClass(x, y))

but this doesn't work

import package_name.some_module as pn
import package_name.another_module as pn
instance = pn.SomeClass(pn.AnotherClass(x, y))

because the second as pn overrides the first one.

Answer 1

The syntax to import a single module from the package is:

from package_name import some_module as pn

To have access from package_name to the classes defined inside the other modules, the right thing to do is to import these classes, explictly or using some tool, to the __init__.py file inside package_name:

package_name/__init__.py :

from .some_module import a_class
from .another_module import another_class

And that will allow you to simply do:

import package_name as pn
pn.a_class