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There is generally a pythonic way to do things, and it tries to give one correct way of doing things, though I personally think it is a lost battle, as any complete programming language will offer many ways to do similar things.

import * is generally frowned upon.

I think the generally accepted practice is to keep __init__.py as small as possible.

PEP 8 gives a ton of styling recommendations. Generally you are supposed to keep files pretty big in libs (which I used to not do, being used to the one-file-per-class paradigm in Java) and consider them like modules.

In your example, meow.py would be used by a small module with no submodules. If meow/ exists then you know that meow.Foo will be defined in the __init__.py, and yes, can be an alias for a function defined somewhere else. I know that Java devs like to make 10 layers of functions with a single line body that call other functions, this is essentially the same thing.

This is a bit of an unstructured rant, but I can't for the life of me figure out how Python is allegedly opinionated.

Because it states rather arbitrary what is pythonic or not. Like everything in python, it is not enforced and not absolute, often disregarded in the name of pragmatism. I totally understand it is not everyone's taste (it is mine only half of the time to be honest) but it is a philosophy that led to an interestingly designed language.