On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:02:34 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> On my wishlist for Python is a big, fat SyntaxError for any variable >> that could be interpreted as either local or nonlocal and is not >> explicitly declared as either. It would eliminate this sort of >> confusion entirely and make code that shadows nonlocal variables much >> more readable. >> > Which now makes code dependent upon changes to some imported modules > if someone is foolish enough to use the > > from xyz import * > > notation...
It's already a SyntaxError to use a wildcard import anywhere other than the module level, so its use can only affect global variables. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
