the demise of 'from foo import * and its implications?

[Robin Becker]

In article <mailman.983574424.19418.python-list at python.org>, Tim Peters
<tim.one at home.com> writes
...
>It's quite an ambitious act of compression to read that as "import * is going
>away" <wink>.  And, according to the Reference Manual, "import *" at other
>than module scope has never been legitimate (nested functions or not).
...
it's an ambitious act to suppose that the new complicated
__twilight_zone__ rules are better than the old simpler rules because of
some optimisation.
-- 
Robin Becker