% cat myclient.py
from mymod import countLines
from mymod import countChars
print countLines('mymod.py'), countChars('mymod.py')

% python myclient.py
13 346



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% cat mod1.py
somename = 42

% cat collector.py
from mod1 import *       # collect lots of names here
from mod2 import *       # from assigns to my names
from mod3 import *

>>> from collector import somename