'import x as y' stops the show (was: Re: [Python-Dev] [Patch #101135] 'import x as y' and 'from x import y as z' (fwd)) (original) (raw)

Peter Schneider-Kamp nowonder@nowonder.de
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 07:02:12 +0000

Thomas Wouters wrote:

For those of you not on the patches list, here's the summary of the patch I just uploaded to SF. In short, it adds "import x as y" and "from module import x as y", in the way Tim proposed this morning. (Probably late last night for most of you.)

-1 on the implementation. Although it looked okay on a first visual inspection, it builds a segfaulting python executable on linux: make distclean && ./configure && make test segfaults when first time starting python to run regrtest.py. Reversing the patch and doing a simple 'make test' has everything running again.

+1 on the idea, though. It just seems sooo natural. My first reaction before applying the patch was testing if Python did not already do this <0.25 wink - really did it>

Peter

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