Tim Peters wrote: > > Turns out IDLE no longer runs. Starting at line 88 of > Tools/idle/EditorWindow.py we have this class defn: > > class EditorWindow: > > from Percolator import Percolator > from ColorDelegator import ColorDelegator > from UndoDelegator import UndoDelegator > from IOBinding import IOBinding > import Bindings > from Tkinter import Toplevel > from MultiStatusBar import MultiStatusBar > > about_title = about_title > ... > > This leads to what looks like a bug (if we're to believe the error msg, > which doesn't mean what it says): > > C:\Pyk>python tools/idle/idle.pyw > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "tools/idle/idle.pyw", line 2, in ? > import idle > File "C:\PYK\Tools\idle\idle.py", line 11, in ? > import PyShell > File "C:\PYK\Tools\idle\PyShell.py", line 15, in ? > from EditorWindow import EditorWindow, fixwordbreaks > File "C:\PYK\Tools\idle\EditorWindow.py", line 88, in ? > class EditorWindow: > File "C:\PYK\Tools\idle\EditorWindow.py", line 90, in EditorWindow > from Percolator import Percolator > SyntaxError: 'from ... import *' may only occur in a module scope > Hit return to exit... I have already reported this to Jeremy. There are other instances of 'from x import *' in function and class scope too, e.g. some test() functions in the standard dist do this. I am repeating myself here, but I think that this single change will cause so many people to find their scripts are failing that it is really not worth it. Better issue a warning than raise an exception here ! -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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