[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My understanding of the __future__ statement is that you may say > something like: > > from __future__ import foo, bar > > to enable more than one feature. However, this does not seem to be > working properly in 2.5; it behaves as expected when typed into the > interactive interpreter, but not when it is in a module. When I try to > import the following module: > > from __future__ import with_statement, division, absolute_import > def bar(): > print 5/3 > with open('asdf') as f: > for line in f: print line.strip() > > I get a warning that 'with' will soon be a reserved keyword, and a > SyntaxError on the line with the with statement, so obviously, the > __future__ statement is not working. When I change the first line to: > > from __future__ import with_statement > from __future__ import division,absolute_import > > then the with statement works fine. However, the true division also > works fine, so apparently making multiple __future__ imports on one > line works for division, but not for with_statement. > > Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding something? I'm using the final > release of Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13) on Mac OS X.
This is a bug and has now been fixed in the SVN repo. Thanks for bringing it up. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list