newbie OO question

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <mailman.4806.1145559459.27775.python-list at python.org>,
 Jeremy Winters <teethofgold at yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>> from SegmentValue import *

I remember in the old days a computing support guy saying he refused to 
help any users with FORTRAN questions unless they had an "IMPLICIT NONE" 
in every program block.

The corresponding rule nowadays would be no help to Java or Python 
programmers who use wildcard imports.