Can you define aliases for imported modules in Python?

alias, module, python, python-import

Solution

import a_ridiculously_long_module_name as short_name

also works for

import module.submodule.subsubmodule as short_name

Problem

In Python, is it possible to define an alias for an imported module? For instance: ``` import a_ridiculously_long_module_name ``` ...so that is has an alias of 'short_name'.

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