[Python-ideas] Unpacking a dict

[Guido van Rossum]

Any idea using import syntax or even syntax similar to import is dead.
Import is about modules and needs to stay about that.

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Pavol Lisy <pavol.lisy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see backward compatibility problem with import :
>
> sys = dict(version_info=4.0)
> from sys import version_info
>
> This is legal and using import for unpacking dict could change this behavior.
>
> In case we put higher priority to import from module then unexpected
> module in PYTHONPATH could change unpacked value. Sort of problem not
> easy to found. From library maintainer point of view not easy to avoid
> too.
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