Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> However, PEP 3100 (the general Py3k TO-DO list) includes a line item to
>> get rid of "from ... import *" at function level because of the merry
>> hell it plays with the local variable optimisations. It's possible the
>> module level version also got clobbered when this was implemented.
>
> That sounds like completely separate from relative import though, and
> unrelated. I think outside functions "from .foo import *" should be
> allowed.
>
Oh, I agree (it's an invaluable trick for things like "from
._hidden_module import *"). I was just speculating on how the module
level variant may have come to be broken in the first place, not
suggesting that the breakage was intentional or a good idea. My
curiousity isn't strong enough to get me to trawl through the svn
history to find out the actual cause though ;)
Cheers,
Nick.
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