[Python-3000] from .foo import *

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Mar 19 20:08:06 CET 2008


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>  However, PEP 3100 (the general Py3k TO-DO list) includes a line item to
>  get rid of "from ... import *" at function level because of the merry
>  hell it plays with the local variable optimisations. It's possible the
>  module level version also got clobbered when this was implemented.

That sounds like completely separate from relative import though, and
unrelated. I think outside functions "from .foo import *" should be
allowed.

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