[Python-Dev] Re: from ... import * ([Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Python
compile.c,2.153,2.154)
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:57:20 +0100
Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>
> >>>>> "MAL" == M -A Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
>
> >> 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.
>
> MAL> Jeremy, your code breaks all uses of "from package import
> MAL> submodule" inside packages.
>
> MAL> Try distutils for example or setup.py....
>
> Quite aside from whether the changes should be preserved, I don't see
> how "from package import submodule" is affected. I ran setup.py
> without any problem; I wouldn't have been able to build Python
> otherwise. I wrote some simple test cases and didn't have any trouble
> with the form you describe.
Perhaps you still had old .pyc files in your installation dir ?
> Can you provide a concrete example? It may be that something other
> than the changes mentioned above that is causing you problems.
The distutils code is full of imports like these (and other
code I'm running is too):
distutils/cmd.py:
def __init__ (self, dist):
"""Create and initialize a new Command object. Most importantly,
invokes the 'initialize_options()' method, which is the real
initializer and depends on the actual command being
instantiated.
"""
# late import because of mutual dependence between these classes
from distutils.dist import Distribution
This is the report I got from Benjamin Collar:
> I've gotten the newest CVS tarball, but setup.py is still not
> working; this time with a different error. I will resubmit a bug on
> sourceforge if that's the proper way to handle this. Here's the error:
>
> ./python ./setup.py build
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./setup.py", line 12, in ?
> from distutils.core import Extension, setup
> File "/usr/src/python/dist/src/Lib/distutils/core.py", line 20, in ?
> from distutils.cmd import Command
> File "/usr/src/python/dist/src/Lib/distutils/cmd.py", line 15, in ?
> from distutils import util, dir_util, file_util, archive_util,
> dep_util
> SyntaxError: 'from ... import *' may only occur in a module scope
> make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1
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