[M.-A. Lemburg]
> 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.
But there are no instances of "from x import *" in the case I reported,
despite that the error msg (erroneously!) claimed there was. It's
complaining about
from Percolator import Percolator
in a class definition. That smells like a bug, not a debatable design
choice.
> 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.
Provided the case above is fixed, IDLE will indeed fail to compile anyway,
because Guido does
from Tkinter import *
inside several functions. But that's a different problem.
> Better issue a warning than raise an exception here !
If Jeremy can't generate correct code, a warning is too weak.
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