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Python

Posted by vikas pal
vikas pal
11,563 Points

please tell me briefly about 'from timestamp'

explain 'FROM' briefly to me please.why we use it and when we use it.what is it description. in which video of python they taught it.

1 Answer

Gianpaul Rachiele
Gianpaul Rachiele
4,844 Points
Gianpaul Rachiele
Gianpaul Rachiele
4,844 Points

If I understand your question correctly, you use the the keyword "from" to specify what package you're trying to import something from so let's say you want to import the ntlk package and use the function nltk.tokenize() instead of calling the function nltk.tokenize() you could import a specific function from a package using the from keyword.

i.e.

### Here you don't use the "from" keyword

import nltk

sentence = "Hello my name is Gianpaul"

nltk.word_tokenize(sentence)

### note that when you don't use the "from" keyword you need to specify "nltk" when calling the function

###########################################

### Here you use the "from" keyword

from nltk import word_tokenize

sentence = "Hello my name is Gianpaul"

word_tokenize(sentence)

### here you don't need to use "nltk" when calling the function

I hope this helps