Jack Diederich wrote:
I like syntax that reads most important left-to-right, so what about from MODULE import NAMES as RENAME searching HOW or import NAMES as RENAME from MODULE searching HOW
This would work really well for any uses cases I can imagine having. It also has the following benefits: 1. No magic punctuation 2. People who don't need it, just never use a 'searching' clause 3. People encountering it for the first time have a clear flag letting them know something fancy is going on 4. These people have a word they can look up in the Python docs I hadn't even thought of point 4 prior to considering Jack's proposal. If I encounter "import .fred.mary" in some python I didn't write, how the heck do I find out what it means? [...]
ps, I like the second version better but it is less like the current version, which is a drawback.
To head a little further down this sidetrack, the from version of 'import' has puzzled me for a while: A. from mypkg import foo B. import mypkg.foo as foo What, if any, are the semantic differences between A & B? Is it only that A2 works, and B2 doesn't? A2. from mymodule import * B2. import mymodule.* Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | Brisbane, Australia Email: ncoghlan@email.com | Mobile: +61 409 573 268