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[Oren Tirosh]

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 05:44:44PM +0200, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> BTW, confusing error:
> 
>   9 >>> from __future__ import *
>   File "<stdin>", line 1
> SyntaxError: future statement does not support import *
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Wouldn't ImportError be more correct?
> 

Nope, it's really a syntax error. The "from __future__ import..." is 
special-cased by the compiler. That's how it knows, for example, that
it should treat the word "yield" as a keyword instead of a regular 
symbol.

This error will be generated even if you just compile a piece of code.
To get an ImportError you need to actually execute it.

    Oren