from tkinter import * ?

Question

Could someone break down what is happening when i call this directive, preferably the "from" and * parts? would you also be able to explain why i would use all of these, instead of, say, "import tkinter"?

Answer 1

From means that you're importing something from a library, Tkinter is the name of that library. Import * means everything. If I do:

import tkinter as tk
tk.methodname()

Like this it's better:

from tkinter import *
methodname()