[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.108,1.109

[Jeremy Hylton]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv17351/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
add note about two kinds of illegal imports that are now checked


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.108
retrieving revision 1.109
diff -C2 -r1.108 -r1.109
*** NEWS	2001/01/29 06:41:00	1.108
--- NEWS	2001/01/30 01:27:28	1.109
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*** 33,36 ****
--- 33,42 ----
  Core language, builtins, and interpreter
  
+ - The compiler will report a SyntaxError if "from ... import *" occurs
+   in a function or class scope or if a name bound by the import
+   statement is declared global in the same scope.  The language
+   reference has also documented that these cases are illegal, but
+   they were not enforced.
+ 
  - There is a new Unicode companion to the PyObject_Str() API
    called PyObject_Unicode(). It behaves in the same way as the