Patch #662454: import a.b as c is ok, fixes #660811.

loewis · loewis · commit 13dd9d99782f · 2003-01-16T11:30:08.000Z
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
@@ -678,11 +678,7 @@ \section{The \keyword{import} statement \label{import}}
 the local namespace to the module object, and then goes on to import
 the next identifier, if any.  If the module name is followed by
 \keyword{as}, the name following \keyword{as} is used as the local
-name for the module. To avoid confusion, you cannot import modules
-with dotted names \keyword{as} a different local name. So \code{import
-module as m} is legal, but \code{import module.submod as s} is not.
-The latter should be written as \code{from module import submod as s};
-see below.
+name for the module. 
 
 The \keyword{from} form does not bind the module name: it goes through the
 list of identifiers, looks each one of them up in the module found in step
