Question about Python-Grammar

[Bernhard Herzog]

Roman Meisl <roman at syxx.de> writes:

[about Python's Grammar]
> import_stmt: 'import' dotted_as_name 
> dotted_as_name: dotted_name [NAME NAME]
> dotted_name: NAME ('.' NAME)*
> 
> which makes following import-statement possible:
> import NAME NAME NAME
> 
> What's the sense of this statement? Or is this an error in the
> grammar?
> 
> (Even the compiler (2.2.2) claims a syntax error when parsing 
> "import mod1 mod2 mod3" )

But not for "import mod1 as mod2". 

The "as" in there is not a keyword and thus can't be in the Grammar
explicitly AFAIK so constraining "import NAME NAME NAME" to cases where
the second NAME is "as" is done by the compiler.

   Bernhard

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