Why use "slim = tf.contrib.slim" instead of import slim normally?

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In most tensorflow slim tutorials, slim module is loaded using,

slim = tf.contrib.slim

it does not seem making any difference (am I missing anything?), if I do 

from tensorflow.contrib import slim

Is there any particular reason that we want to use 'slim = tf.contrib.slim' instead of 'import'?

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There isn't a difference between the

slim = tf.contrib.slim

and 

from tensorflow.contrib import slim

I believe that the former is used to avoid writing the entire tensorflow name.

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