How to import two or more modules with the same name in Python?

Question

Here's the code which is causing me trouble:

import time
from time import time

time.sleep(1)
start=time()
input=raw_input(' ')
end=time()
time.sleep(1)

print (start - end)

The issues are the following two imports with the same name as time:

import time

from time import time

How can I access both of these modules in my code? I need to use both the following lines in my code:

lines time()
and time.sleep()

But once imported, second module overrides the first one.

Answer 1

How to import two or more modules with the same name?

Python provides the way to import modules with an alias. For example in your case, you may do:

import time as t   # access "time" as "t"
from time import time as tt  # access "time.time" as "tt"

In order to use, just use the alias as:

t.sleep(1)   # equivalent to "time.sleep(1)"

start = tt()  # equivalent to "start = time.time()"

In fact you can also store the imported modules in variables and aceess it later:

import time
t = time

from time import time
tt = time

But why to do this when Python already supports aliases?

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Better approach for your scenario

My above answer is aimed at any such general scenario. Though for your's specific problem Turksarama's answer makes more sense , because time.sleep and time.time belongs to same module. Just import them and use them together. For example:

import time

time.sleep(10)
time.time()

OR,

from time import time, sleep

sleep(10)
time()