Questions about no more nested imports

[Michael Hudson]

whisper at oz.net (Dave LeBlanc) writes:

> I'm a bit confused by this. 

 | <- the right end                        the wrond end -> |
 +----------------------------------------------------------+
 |                         the stick                        |
 *----------------------------------------------------------+
                                                         ^
                                            you're about here

> 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.

The only thing that's getting banned is "from blah import *" and
"exec" without "in" in a set of fairly restricted circumstances.

Read the PEP:

  http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0227.html

(specifically the section "Backwards compatibility").

Cheers,
M.

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