[ Dylan Reinhardt]

That's not how it's *supposed* to work...

Your choices (as I recall them) are:

from [<package>.]*<module> import <name> [as <new_name>]

- or -

import [<package>.]*<module> [as <new_name>]

Either way, the thing you import or import from should be a module.

No, you can also import names directly from a package - as long as they are defined in the __init__.py. And you can import a package itself. Here is working code from my Extensions directory that illustrates the point. "gcm is a __package__, and "code" is a package nested under "gcm". gcmdriver is a module in gcm\code. from gcm.code import gcmdriver from gcm import BASEPATH The following also work - import gcm.code from gcm import code Cheers, Tom P