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author | Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> | 2002-04-01 21:19:44 (GMT) |
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committer | Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> | 2002-04-01 21:19:44 (GMT) |
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Note the sole case in which the ban on "from ... import *" within a
function is enforced.
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex index 7dae88a..c78328c 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex @@ -680,7 +680,11 @@ defined, the set of public names includes all names found in the module's namespace which do not begin with an underscore character (\character{_}). -The \keyword{from} form with \samp{*} may only occur in a module scope. +The \keyword{from} form with \samp{*} may only occur in a module +scope. If the wild card form of import --- \samp{import *} --- is +used in a function and the function contains or is a nested block with +free variables, the compiler will raise a \exception{SyntaxError}. + \kwindex{from} \stindex{from} |