[Patches] [Patch #101215] extend 'import x as y' syntax to 'import x as y.z'

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 noreply@sourceforge.net wrote:
> Date: 2000-Aug-18 13:28
> By: twouters
> 
> Comment:
> Hmm... I like the idea a bit, but it'm -1 on the approach:
> Special casing 'name.name' is *not* the way to go. Instead,
> what we can do is to allow all normal assignment expressions
> in the 'as <name>' so that you can do
[...]
> from myTools.cPickleFast import Pickler as shelve.Pickler
[...]
> from sys import stdin as x[0], stdout as x[1], stderr as x[2]
[...]
> from sys import stdin as x.in, stdout as x.out, stderr as x.err
[...]
> from sys import sys.version_info as (major, minor, patchlevel, releaselevel, releaseserial)

I support this generalization.  It just makes a lot of sense.



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