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On 4/7/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:

It would be nice if this chain could instead be written as:

   from stringio or cStringIO or StringIO import StringIO

Similar to PEP 341, this could be pure syntactic sugar, with the actual
try-except statements generated in the AST.


It could, but it's probably easier to make the IMPORT\_NAME (and possibly IMPORT\_FROM) opcodes take more names from the stack, and do it all in the C code for the opcodes. And \_\_import\_\_ could be changed to accept a sequence of modules (it takes keyword arguments now, anyway. ;)

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Thomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>

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