Ok, but is that really required?  The example in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/ is this way:

```
from Tkinter import (Tk, Frame, Button, Entry, Canvas, Text,
    LEFT, DISABLED, NORMAL, RIDGE, END)
```

but http://docs.python.org/release/2.4/whatsnew/node10.html says

```
from SimpleXMLRPCServer import (SimpleXMLRPCServer,
                                SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler,
                                CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler,
                                resolve_dotted_attribute)
```
so maybe it is?