Support for function importing via regex

[JosephTJennings]

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Idea: from database_api import update_* 
Current: from database_api import update_success, update_failure, update_running, update_initialized

This could clean up some code bases by allowing users to regex match some functions when importing. Full Regex matching may be slightly difficult, as an MVP, support for asterisks (*) matching would go a long way.
In the above codeblock, this would import all functions which start with "update_" from the module database_api.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

[JelleZijlstra]

This is a major feature that would need a PEP and discussion on https://discuss.python.org first. You should start by posting in the Ideas thread on Discuss, but as a warning, it's very unlikely that this feature will gain any traction.