[Python-Dev] one more restriction for from __future__ import ...

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:01:53 +1300 (NZDT)


> The pass to find future statements exits as soon as it
> finds something that isn't a doc string or a future.

Well, don't do that, then. Have the find_future_statements
pass keep going and look for *illegal* future statements as
well.

Then, subsequent passes can just ignore any import that
looks like a future statement, because it will already have
been either processed or reported as an error.

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