'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)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 07:55:10 +0200

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 07:37:44AM +0000, Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote:

Thomas Wouters wrote:

> If it still goes crashy crashy after you re-make the grammar, I'll, well, > I'll, I'll make Baldrick eat one of his own dirty socks ;)

I just found that out for myself. The syntaxerror in the second examples lead my way ...

Sorry for the hassle, but next time please remind me that I have to remake the grammar.

It was late, last night, and I have to force myself not to write essays when submitting a patch in the first place ;-P How about we fix the dependencies so that the grammar gets re-made when necessary ? Or is there a good reason not to do that ?

perversely-minded-note: What about 'from string import *, join as j'? I think that would make sense, but as we are not fond of the star in any case maybe we don't need that.

'join as j' ? What would it do ? Import all symbols from 'string' into a new namespace 'j' ? How about you do 'import string as j' instead ? It means you will still be able to do 'j._somevar', which you probably wouldn't in your example, but I don't think that's enough reason :P

P.S.: I'd like to see Baldrick do that. What the heck is a Baldrick? I am longing for breakfast, so I hope I can eat it. Mjam.

Sorry :) They've been doing re-runs of Blackadder (1st through 4th, they're nearly done) on one of the belgian channels, and it happens to be one of my favorite comedy shows ;) It's a damned sight funnier than Crocodile Dundee, hey, Mark ? :)

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