Paul Rubin a écrit : > 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.
if some_runtime_condition: from foo import * Paul, I do know why you think compile-time checks are a good thing, but you do have to understand that Python is *highly* dynamic. Except for syntax errors, don't expect much help from the Python's compiler. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
