Relative import of a module within a package

How can I make a module-within-a-package .adipiscing.lorem_ipsum available, in a way which cleanly uses the import system and doesn't leave extraneous names unused?

Given a code base:

foo/
    consecteur.py
    adipiscing/
        lorem_ipsum.py

The consecteur module needs to access the adipiscing.lorem_ipsum module.

This is what I want to do:

# consecteur.py

from . import adipiscing.lorem_ipsum

dolor = adipiscing.lorem_ipsum.dolor_sit_amet()

That doesn't work; from . import adipiscing.lorem_ipsum is a SyntaxError.

Options that don't satisfy

Use implicit relative import

# consecteur.py

import adipiscing.lorem_ipsum

dolor = adipiscing.lorem_ipsum.dolor_sit_amet()

This needlessly confuses whether adipiscing.lorem_ipsum is an absolute or relative import. The code should instead be explicit when an import is relative.

Pull the module out of its namespace package

# consecteur.py

from .adipiscing import lorem_ipsum

dolor = lorem_ipsum.dolor_sit_amet()

This loses the valuable information that is conveyed by reading adipiscing.lorem_ipsum, especially if lorem_ipsum is instead a generic word that needs to be contextualised by the adipiscing package namespace.

Import with a mangled name

# consecteur.py

from .adipiscing import lorem_ipsum as adipiscing_lorem_ipsum

dolor = adipiscing_lorem_ipsum.dolor_sit_amet()

This is visually confusing; someone expecting adipiscing.lorem_ipsum can easily type that expecting it to work, but that name is not available. Making a confusingly-similar name is not a good solution; neither is making a distinct name, since the whole purpose is to make adipiscing.lorem_ipsum available.

This is also ambiguous if one or both of the package or the module names actually have underscores already. If an underscore represents a dot, that becomes indistinguishable from a name that actually contains an underscore.

Import the package, try using the module

# consecteur.py

from . import adipiscing

dolor = adipiscing.lorem_ipsum.dolor_sit_amet()

This is an AttributeError because adipiscing.lorem_ipsum is not available now; a module is not automatically available just by importing the containing package.

Import the package, then import the module but never use its name

# consecteur.py

from . import adipiscing
from .adipiscing import lorem_ipsum

dolor = adipiscing.lorem_ipsum.dolor_sit_amet()

This hack succeeds, but the import statement from .adipiscing import lorem_ipsum declares that we will be using the bare lorem_ipsum name.

Since that's not true, static code checkers will (correctly) complain about an unused import. I agree with those code checkers, so I don't just want to silence the warning; I want to avoid the hack and still get the adipiscing.lorem_ipsum name available.

So, how can I make the adipiscing.lorem_ipsum name available to the code by that name, using an explicit relative import, without unused imports?