A distinction without a difference. - Dave Sims ???In Python, the file is a module, and you can import its contained names with from themodule import *??? ??? In fact, you can even tell a module, which properties should be importable and included in *, by specifying a module's __all__ list. - poke @Close voter: Why the vote to close? - Andrew Grimm @Andrew: apparently because it is not a real ques