[Python-Dev] Re: from ... import * ([Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Python compile.c,2.153,2.154)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

> Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Python
> In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv17061/Python
> 
> Modified Files:
>         compile.c 
> Log Message:
> Enforce two illegal import statements that were outlawed in the
> reference manual but not checked: Names bound by import statemants may
> not occur in global statements in the same scope. The from ... import *
> form may only occur in a module scope.
> 
> I guess these changes could break code, but the reference manual
> warned about them.

Jeremy, your code breaks all uses of "from package import submodule"
inside packages.

Try distutils for example or setup.py....

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