When using many IDEs that support autocompletion with Python, things like this will show warnings, which I find annoying:

from eventlet.green.httplib import BadStatusLine

When switching to:

rom eventlet.green.httplib *

The warnings go away. What's the benefit to limiting imports to a specific set of types you'll use? Is the parsing faster? Reduces collisions? What other point is there? It seems the state of python IDEs and the nature of the typing system makes it hard for many IDEs to fully get right when a type import works and when it doesn't.