How can I change the name of a group of imports in Python?

Question

I would like to import all methods from a module with altered names.

For instance, instead of

from module import repetitive_methodA as methodA, \
    repetitive_Class1 as Class1, \
    repetitive_instance4 as instance4

I'd prefer something along the lines of

from module import * as *-without-"repetitive_"

this is a rephrasing of this clumsy unanswered question, I have not been able to find a solution or similar questions yet.

Answer 1

You can do it this way:

import module
import inspect
for (k,v) in inspect.getmembers(module):
    if k.startswith('repetitive_'):
        globals()[k.partition("_")[2]] = v

Edit in response to the comment "how is this answer intended to be used?"

Suppose module looks like this:

# module
def repetitive_A():
    print ("This is repetitive_A")

def repetitive_B():
    print ("This is repetitive_B")

Then after running the rename loop, this code:

A()
B()

produces this output:

This is repetitive_A
This is repetitive_B