Relative-importing *

[Ben Finney]

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:

> Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> writes:
> > I read "from module import *" as explicitly saying "clobber the
> > current namespace with whatever names module exports". That's what
> > from does: it imports names into the current namespace. It isn't
> > some sort of easy to miss side-effect. If a name already existed,
> > it gets clobbered, just like any other import:
> 
> Seems to me that there should be a compiler warning when this
> happens.

The import happens at run-time. The compiler can't catch it.

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Ben Finney