On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Could somebody (the OP?) please explain what is the purpose of this proposal, > what it does, how it works, and when would people use it?
My theory: A directive is actually parsed by the compiler, not executed at run-time. So you could have a clean ImportError that says that you need a particular version, rather than a SyntaxError because you used "async def". But given that you can't recover from it without the same "import mymodule2 as mymodule" trick anyway, there's not that much difference. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
