Namespace flooding with * imports

[micseydel]

This is a great explanation of the problems with using star imports, but I thought it worth mentioning that PEP 8 also discourages its use explicitly,

Wildcard imports (from <module> import *) should be avoided, as they make it unclear which names are present in the namespace, confusing both readers and many automated tools. There is one defensible use case for a wildcard import, which is to republish an internal interface as part of a public API (for example, overwriting a pure Python implementation of an interface with the definitions from an optional accelerator module and exactly which definitions will be overwritten isn't known in advance).