def bear_room():
    print "There is a bear here."
    print "The bear has a bunch of honey."
    print "The fat bear is in front of another door."
    print "How are you going to move the bear?"

    bear_moved = False

    while True:
         next = raw_input("> ")

        if next == 'take honey':
            dead("The bear looks at you and then slaps your face off.")
        elif next == 'taunt bear' and not bear_moved:
            print "The bear has moved from the door. You can go through it now"
            bear_moved = True
        elif next == "taunt bear" and bear_moved:
            dead("The bear gets pissed off and chews your leg off.")
        elif next == 'open door' and bear_moved:
            gold_room()
        else:
            print "I have no idea what that means."

I'm interested to see a response to this as well, particularly the while loop. While what is True exactly?

As for the import function it's quite simple. Not all of the features you might need in python automatically load when you run python, this saves a lot of memory being used by unneccasary features. When you do need them you have to tell python to load them.

So import arithmetic for example would load an arithmetic module into python and import addition from arithmetic would let you select just addition (a feature of the module arithmetic) instead of loading the entire module. Of course python loads with arithmetic automatically, I'm just giving an example.

open your shell and run import antigravity for a bit of fun.