[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src Makefile.pre.in,1.14,1.15

[Greg Ewing]

Jeremy Hylton:

> Relax the rules for using 'from ... import *' and exec in the presence
> of nested functions.  Either is allowed in a function if it contains
> no defs or lambdas or the defs and lambdas it contains have no free
> variables.

Seems to me the rules could be relaxed even further than that.
Simply say that if an exec or import-* introduces any new names
into an intermediate scope, then tough luck, they won't be visible
to any nested functions.

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