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@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 1? Core language, builtins, and interpreter +- Two changes to from...import: + + 1) "from M import X" now works even if M is not a real module; it's + basically a getattr() operation with AttributeError exceptions + changed into ImportError. + + 2) "from M import *" now looks for M.__all__ to decide which names to + import; if M.__all__ doesn't exist, it uses M.__dict__.keys() but + filters out names starting with '_' as before. Whether or not + __all__ exists, there's no restriction on the type of M. + - File objects have a new method, xreadlines(). This is the fastest way to iterate over all lines in a file: |