nested scopes

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.981139624.1198.python-list at python.org>,
Thomas Wouters  <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
>
>(Don't get me wrong: I seriously think 'from foo import *' is overused. The
>language reference makes it pretty clear what it was intended for, and I
>think even the common 'from Tkinter import *' is wrong use -- but I don't
>like code breakage, regardless.)

Yup.  I even have one slide in my upcoming Thread Tutorial at IPC9
devoted to editorializing about import.
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