title: import everything from a module except a few methods
body: <p>Is it possible to <code>import</code> everything (<code>*</code>) from an existing Python module <em>except</em> a number of explicitly specified methods?</p>
  
  <p>(Background: Against recommended Python practice it is common in <a href="http://fenicsproject.org/" rel="noreferrer">FEniCS</a> to do <code>from dolfin import *</code>. A few of the methods names contain the string "Test" though (e.g., <code>TestFunction()</code>) and are mistaken for unit tests by <a href="http://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/" rel="noreferrer">nose</a>.)</p>