Questions about no more nested imports

Paul Prescod paulp at ActiveState.com
Sun Mar 11 14:19:24 EST 2001


Dave LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> I'm a bit confused by this.
> 
> It appears that if this is enforced, one can no longer dynamically
> load extensions/whatever dynamically and all imports must be done at
> the top of a module prior to anticipated use - whether used or not. If
> this is true, then load times for python apps could go up drastically.

Nobody has proposed that nested imports be disallowed. The only form
that is disallowed is a nested form of "from X import *".

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