Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- \ "I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a | `\ full house and four people died." -- Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
