A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:50:11 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>>> if someone is foolish enough to use the
>>>
>>>         from xyz import *
>>>
>>> notation...
>>
>> It's already a SyntaxError to use a wildcard import anywhere other than
>> the module level, so its use can only affect global variables.
>
> In Python 3.x.
>
> In Python 2.x, which includes the most recent version of three of the
> four "big implementations" (PyPy, Jython, IronPython) it is still legal,
> at least in theory.

If we're talking about making changes to the language, then we're
clearly talking about Python 3.x and beyond.  There are no more major
releases planned for 2.x.