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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> As if you didn't have to import modules in Python. If this example
> shows anything then bad design of Python where standard modules get
> special treatment. In Ada all packages are same. The package Standard
> is minimal.

Only one standard Python module ("builtins") is imported automatically.
You have to import the rest.  I think there is a way to suppress the
automatic import of the builtins module.  Haskell similarly has the
standard Prelude, OCaml has something similar, etc, fwiw.  

> While Python code is incredibly ugly and impossible to understand
> being counterintuitive, cryptic and lacking any regularity.

I haven't found this most of the time.  Python has some weird and
confusing features like metaclasses, that might or might not be badly
designed, but that are usually irrelevant for beginners.