On Sunday 21 December 2003 10:52 pm, Jack Diederich wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:48:01PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I like syntax that reads most important left-to-right, so what about from MODULE import NAMES as RENAME searching HOW import NAMES as RENAME from MODULE searching HOW
I like Jack's original idea and I've been chewing on it for a few days. His was: import NAMES as RENAME from MODULE searching HOW My humble suggestion: import NAMES import NAMES in MODULE [in HOW] import NAME, OTHER in FOO in RELATIVE import NAME as RENAME in MODULE in ABSOLUTE Playing with it: import sys import path, stat in os import AClass, AValue in AModule in __search__ import AType in Package.Library in __absolute__ It emphasizes the name that's imported and it reduces+reuses a keyword. Reusing "in" is a stretch, of course, and it reading it twice in the same statement might be confusing for some. I don't really like the dot/triple dot notation... the leading punctuation smells perl-ish. :) Only-a-random-two-cents-ly yours, -- Troy Melhase, troy@gci.net -- Merry Christmas!