Aaaargh! "global name 'eggz' is not defined"

[Ben Finney]

Albert Hopkins <marduk at letterboxes.org> writes:

> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 17:27 -0500, Robert Kern wrote:
> > I consider "import *" the first error to be fixed, so it doesn't
> > bother me much. :-)
>
> But does pyflakes at least *warn* about the use of "import *" (I've
> never used it so just asking)?

That's easy enough to check:

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$ cat namespace_clobber.py
from foo import *

$ pyflakes namespace_clobber.py 
namespace_clobber.py:1: 'from foo import *' used; unable to detect undefined names
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Ben Finney