[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-706253 ] python accepts illegal "import mod.sub as name" syntax

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Bugs item #706253, was opened at 2003-03-19 13:44
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Alexander Miseler (amiseler)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: python accepts illegal "import mod.sub as name" syntax

Initial Comment:
http://python.org/doc/current/ref/import.html
"To avoid confusion, you cannot import modules with
dotted names as a different local name. So import
module as m is legal, but import module.submod as s is
not."

sadly the interpreter accepts the illegal form without
comment which makes it "semi-legal".
packages that rely on this illegal form may cause
trouble with costum import implementations (i.e.
importing from zip file or similar)

tested with 2.2.2 and 2.3a2

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