[Python-Dev] 'import as'

2000年8月18日 09:27:05 -0400 (EDT)

>>>>> "Gordo" == Gordon McMillan <gmcm@hypernet.com> writes:

 Gordo> A whole lot rides on what you mean by "resulting" above. If
 Gordo> by "resulting" you mean "goom", then "import goom.bah as
 Gordo> snarf" would result in my namespace having "snarf" as an
 Gordo> alias for "goom", and I would use "bah" as "snarf.bah". In
 Gordo> which case Greg Ewing is right, and it's "import <dotted
 Gordo> name> as ..." that should be outlawed, (since that's not
 Gordo> what anyone would expect).
Right.
 Gordo> OTOH, if by "resulting" you meant "bah", things are much 
 Gordo> worse, because it means you must patched code you didn't 
 Gordo> understand ;-b.
But I think it /is/ useful behavior for "import <dotted name> as" to
bind the rightmost attribute to the local name. I agree though that
if that can't be done in a sane way, it has to raise an exception.
But that will frustrate users.
-Barry