[Python-Dev] Re: Christmas Wishlist (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Mon Dec 15 10:14:24 EST 2003

Barry Warsaw writes:

V . Explicit global imports. I want a way to spell "import this from the global standard library even if there's a this.py in the local directory".

I like the syntax:

import global <dotted-name>

and

from global <dotted-name> import <name>

Look Guido, no new keywords! ;-)

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation

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