Importing packages with long names

[joel_graff]

So I've never really sorted out a good solution to this issue, and from what I can see, there really isn't one. so I thought I'd post here as a last ditch effort to settle the issue.

The problem is this:

I am writing a series of python modules which serve as extensions / plugins for an application. The application adds modules located in the user's /Mod directory to it's environment path on startup. However, the application uses the *second* directory in the hierarchy as the top-level name for the package.

So the structure looks like this:

/Mod
  |--my_extension_first
       |--my_extension_second
            |--__init__.py
            |--my_extension_code.py

Accessing the extension directly from within the application's python console, then, would work by calling:

from my_extension_second import my_extension_code

But, if I want to access the modules from within another module (say, in another extension), I'd have to use:

from my_extension_first.my_extension_second import my_extension_code

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The issue, then, is I have to maintain this structure for the sake of the application, but it forces me to pollute the import statements with extra long names.

Of course, I can't just alias the import, e.g.:

import my_extension_first.my_extension_second
my_ext = my_extension_first.my_extension_second
from my_ext import my_extension_code

So is there a way to more cleanly manage something like this? Some other way to alias a package path that I haven't discovered?