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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2015-04-24 16:02:29 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2015-04-24 16:02:29 (GMT)
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remove dead *-import checking code (closes #24049)
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@@ -161,10 +161,6 @@ conjunction with nested scopes that contain free variables.
If a variable is referenced in an enclosing scope, it is illegal to delete the
name. An error will be reported at compile time.
-If the wild card form of import --- ``import *`` --- is used in a function and
-the function contains or is a nested block with free variables, the compiler
-will raise a :exc:`SyntaxError`.
-
.. XXX from * also invalid with relative imports (at least currently)
The :func:`eval` and :func:`exec` functions do not have access to the full