Spivak parent
Ruby except with Python style imports where you had better god damn explain in explicit detail where every symbol in the file came from would pretty much be my ideal. Python from blah import * is banned in pretty much every codebase but in Ruby that, or worse autoloading, is all you have.
I don't think that's a fair comparison.
In Ruby, you always use the global name (with caps) that normally matches the library with possibly some nesting. (exceptions exists, but its also possible to add globals in Python)
Unless you are talking about include, but thats for mixins, which are snippets of reusable coee you can add to you class.
It doesn't feel at all as dirty as `from blah import *`.