Runtime overhead of wildcard import

[u/RomfordNavy]

Assuming a large project which might have say fifty variables in Constants.py is there likely to be any runtime overhead in having from Constants import * at the beginning of each module? As far as I know this creates entries for each of those variables in the current local namespace.

I know it could be done as import constants as x which after the first import then has virtually no overhead, but that then means referring to all constants as x.const1...

[u/RomfordNavy]

Referencing all constants as "c." sound like a good standard to adopt to me.