the demise of 'from foo import * and its implications?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.983582584.8198.python-list at python.org>,
Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> wrote:
>
>Would you prefer that we let you dope that out for yourself?  I'd be
>delighted to stick to the official rule, not catering at *all* to code that
>ignored the Ref Man.  Then we could replace the entire explanation with a
>one-line quote from the manual:  "you cheated; you got caught; tough luck".

To my mind, that's an excellent use for from __future__, particularly
combined with the new warnings.  So, yeah, I vote for extra-stringent.
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