[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.91,1.92

[Guido van Rossum]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv2518

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
News about from...import.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.91
retrieving revision 1.92
diff -C2 -r1.91 -r1.92
*** NEWS	2001/01/11 15:00:14	1.91
--- NEWS	2001/01/12 16:25:08	1.92
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*** 4,7 ****
--- 4,18 ----
  Core language, builtins, and interpreter
  
+ - Two changes to from...import:
+ 
+   1) "from M import X" now works even if M is not a real module; it's
+      basically a getattr() operation with AttributeError exceptions
+      changed into ImportError.
+ 
+   2) "from M import *" now looks for M.__all__ to decide which names to
+      import; if M.__all__ doesn't exist, it uses M.__dict__.keys() but
+      filters out names starting with '_' as before.  Whether or not
+      __all__ exists, there's no restriction on the type of M.
+ 
  - File objects have a new method, xreadlines().  This is the fastest
    way to iterate over all lines in a file: