At 3:20 PM +0100 1/3/08, Christian Heimes wrote: >Raymond Hettinger wrote: >> How about a new, simpler syntax: ... >> * import readline or emptymodule > >The syntax idea has a nice ring to it, except for the last idea. As >others have already said, the name emptymodule is too magic. > >The readline example becomes more readable when you change the import to > >import readline or None as readline > > >In my opinion the import or as syntax definition is easy to understand >if you force the user to always have an "as" statement. The None name is >optional but must be the last name: > >import name[, or name2[, or name3 ...] [, or None] as target ...
At 11:48 AM -0600 1/3/08, Ron Adam wrote: ... >An alternative possibility might be, rather than "or", reuse "else" before >import. ... I prefer "else" to "or" but with the original single-statement syntax. If the last clause could be an expression as well as a module name, what I've done (used with and copied from BeautifulSoup): try: from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint except ImportError: name2codepoint = {} could become: from htmlentitydefs else ({}) import name2codepoint as name2codepoint Also: import foo or (None) as foo -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com