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| author | Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> | 2001-01-30 01:27:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu> | 2001-01-30 01:27:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 69c327988a43bf3b4de5394af5193c449cbcde14 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d67157c26fc21a02cd407e889de1a3096e275a3 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | 251ef9666e44792a71c5f1cb83c5b1f3b110a46f (diff) | |
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add note about two kinds of illegal imports that are now checked
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@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 1? Core language, builtins, and interpreter +- The compiler will report a SyntaxError if "from ... import *" occurs + in a function or class scope or if a name bound by the import + statement is declared global in the same scope. The language + reference has also documented that these cases are illegal, but + they were not enforced. + - There is a new Unicode companion to the PyObject_Str() API called PyObject_Unicode(). It behaves in the same way as the former, but assures that the returned value is an Unicode object |