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authorJeremy 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
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@@ -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}