I don't recall the reason; it may simply be due to the complexity, or possibly it would have made the _import__ API even uglier.
I'm fine with removing the restriction; your use case is compelling. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I do a relative star import, I current get > > SyntaxError: 'import *' not allowed with 'from .' > > What's the reason for this restriction? > > Is it ok to remove it? > > I encountered the issue while porting Django. In > django/newforms/__init__.py, they do > > from widgets import * > from fields import * > from forms import * > from models import * > > In 3k, that needs to change to > > from .widgets import * > from .fields import * > from .forms import * > from .models import * > > but that still won't work because of the syntax > error. One solution would be to make the import > explicit, but that is tedious and unmaintainable. > E.g. for the widgets line, it would be > > from .widgets import (Widget, TextInput, PasswordInput, > HiddenInput, MultipleHiddenInput, > FileInput, DateTimeInput, Textarea, CheckboxInput, > Select, NullBooleanSelect, SelectMultiple, RadioSelect, > CheckboxSelectMultiple, MultiWidget, SplitDateTimeWidget) > > Regards, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > Python-3000@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
