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gh-71261: Add paragraph on shadowing submodules with star imports (#107004)

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This would mean that ``from sound.effects import *`` would import the three
named submodules of the :mod:`sound.effects` package.
Be aware that submodules might become shadowed by locally defined names. For
example, if you added a ``reverse`` function to the
:file:`sound/effects/__init__.py` file, the ``from sound.effects import *``
would only import the two submodules ``echo`` and ``surround``, but *not* the
``reverse`` submodule, because it is shadowed by the locally defined
``reverse`` function::
__all__ = [
"echo", # refers to the 'echo.py' file
"surround", # refers to the 'surround.py' file
"reverse", # !!! refers to the 'reverse' function now !!!
]
def reverse(msg: str): # <-- this name shadows the 'reverse.py' submodule
return msg[::-1] # in the case of a 'from sound.effects import *'
If ``__all__`` is not defined, the statement ``from sound.effects import *``
does *not* import all submodules from the package :mod:`sound.effects` into the
current namespace; it only ensures that the package :mod:`sound.effects` has