Hi.

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In addition, all future_statments must appear near the top of the module. The only lines that can appear before a future_statement are:

+ The module docstring (if any). + Comments. + Blank lines. + Other future_statements.

I would like to add another restriction:

A future_statement must appear on a line by itself. It is not legal to combine a future_statement without any other statement using a semicolon.

It would be a bear to implement error handling for cases like this:

from __future__ import a; import b; from __future__ import c Will the error be unclear for the user or there's another problem?

In jython I get from parser an abstract syntax tree, so it is difficult to distringuish the ; from true newlines ;) regards, Samuele