[Python-Dev] Re: [Patches] [Patch #101234] Allow all assignment expressions after 'import something as'

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Summary: Allow all assignment expressions after 'import something as'

-1.  Hypergeneralization.

By the way, notice that

  import foo.bar

places 'foo' in the current namespace, after ensuring that 'foo.bar'
is defined.

What should

  import foo.bar as spam

assign to spam?  I hope foo.bar, not foo.

I note that the CVS version doesn't support this latter syntax at all;
it should be fixed, even though the same effect can be has with

  from foo import bar as spam

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)