importing pkg.sub as other.sub

Question

I don't have this problem, but it came to my mind while I was working on a related issue. Let's have:

logging = 'something'  # bad naming decision
import logging as lg   # using a different name

How do you import logging.config as lg.config without overwriting the original logging?

After some testing I found this:

import logging.config as _  # any unused name

But is it really correct? Are there better solutions?

Answer 1

How about doing something like this ?

import logging as lg
from logging import config

After this both config and lg.config refer to logging.config.

In [3]: config
Out[3]: <module 'logging.config' from 'C:\\Anaconda3\\lib\\logging\\config.py'>

In [4]: lg.config
Out[4]: <module 'logging.config' from 'C:\\Anaconda3\\lib\\logging\\config.py'>