From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:27:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add note about two kinds of illegal imports that are now checked
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a2~75
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=69c327988a43bf3b4de5394af5193c449cbcde14;p=python

add note about two kinds of illegal imports that are now checked
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e3ea276bb7..fa66952ce6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 1?
 
 Core language, builtins, and interpreter
 
+- The compiler will report a SyntaxError if "from ... import *" occurs
+  in a function or class scope or if a name bound by the import
+  statement is declared global in the same scope.  The language
+  reference has also documented that these cases are illegal, but
+  they were not enforced.
+
 - There is a new Unicode companion to the PyObject_Str() API
   called PyObject_Unicode(). It behaves in the same way as the
   former, but assures that the returned value is an Unicode object