[Python-3000] [Python-ideas] Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

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    >> It won't work in this case.  Compilation of the module might well
    >> fail because of Python2/Python3 syntax differences.

    Leif> Well, then this isn't something to be implemented for python 2,
    Leif> it's something to consider for python 3 and greater.  

It won't work there either.  It's quite possible that a module written for
Python 2 won't compile under Python 3.  Compilation is currently the only
route to execution.  You'd have to come up with some other scheme.  Someone
suggested something akin to a "from __future__" facility or the #! trick you
and others mentioned, but that would only work for Python 2.6 and above.

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