Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I read "from module import *" as explicitly saying "clobber the current > namespace with whatever names module exports". That's what from does: it > imports names into the current namespace. It isn't some sort of easy to > miss side-effect. If a name already existed, it gets clobbered, just like > any other import:
Seems to me that there should be a compiler warning when this happens. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
