From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:25:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: News about from...import.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~317
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1cc8f836660c0c7cfd1ca24a58a45531112a1e44;p=python

News about from...import.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 758fca625f..ecd40be7cc 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 1?
 
 Core language, builtins, and interpreter
 
+- Two changes to from...import:
+
+  1) "from M import X" now works even if M is not a real module; it's
+     basically a getattr() operation with AttributeError exceptions
+     changed into ImportError.
+
+  2) "from M import *" now looks for M.__all__ to decide which names to
+     import; if M.__all__ doesn't exist, it uses M.__dict__.keys() but
+     filters out names starting with '_' as before.  Whether or not
+     __all__ exists, there's no restriction on the type of M.
+
 - File objects have a new method, xreadlines().  This is the fastest
   way to iterate over all lines in a file: