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Stephen Cole
Courses Plus Student 15,809 PointsWhy do I have to import the specific modules after importing openpyxl? Doesn't the initial import get all functions?
import openpyxl
from openpyxl import Workbook
from openpyxl.writer.excel import ExcelWriter
from openpyxl.cell import get_column_letter
In the above, are the other imports after the initial import even necessary?
I know you can import a function as a name to shorten it but this seems redundantly redundant.
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Greg Kaleka
39,021 PointsIt really is to shorten your code later on. This way, you don't need to write openpyxl.writer.excel.ExcelWriter every time you need that class. I could be wrong, but I believe python compiler is smart enough to not import multiple copies of the same class files, so you're not losing anything by doing this other than having a couple extra import statements at the top of your file. It's just for convenience.