On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:50:11 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > >>> 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. > > In Python 3.x. > > In Python 2.x, which includes the most recent version of three of the > four "big implementations" (PyPy, Jython, IronPython) it is still legal, > at least in theory.
If we're talking about making changes to the language, then we're clearly talking about Python 3.x and beyond. There are no more major releases planned for 2.x. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
