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You're not polluting the global namespace, because the variables you don't care about are still inside the data namespace, that is, they are attributes of the data module.

Furthermore, you cannot just hide a module attribute: if create_summary is defined in the module, then import data will bring data in, along with its create_summary attribute. However, you can delete it, by calling del create_summary at the end of data.py. This way, it won't appear in dir(data).

Here is a short example: