He must go in front of the operators importor fromwho he needs (which, as you say, is obvious). For example, a module may begin with:
import sys
import os
import math
try:
import foo
except ImportError:
if 'foopath' in sys.path: raise
sys.path.append('foopath')
import foo
, ( , sys.path), sys.path, foopath, ; -).