May 6, 2011
7:20 a.m.
On 6 May 2011 00:24, Brendan Moloney <moloney@ohsu.edu> wrote:
Benjamin Peterson [benjamin@python.org] wrote:
import * is generally frowned upon, so encouraging its use by extending it is not a good idea.
Well it is frowned upon precisely because it pollutes the current namespace. This change would eliminate that issue.
I like this idea, except it's inconsistent with from-import-star, the latter which does *not* get you sub-packages or modules.