From 69c327988a43bf3b4de5394af5193c449cbcde14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Hylton Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:27:28 +0000 Subject: add note about two kinds of illegal imports that are now checked --- Misc/NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index e3ea276..fa66952 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -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 -- cgit v0.12