Re: Packaging and importing

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Rici Lake wrote:
> On 16-Aug-05, at 1:12 PM, Chris Marrin wrote:
>
> > The one nice feature that Python has is:
> >
> >     from math import *
> >
> > which imports all names from math into the namespace. I suppose that 
> > could be done with:
> >
> >     import("math", "all")
> >
> > or something like that.
>
>
> This cannot be done at compile time, since the compiler has no real way 
> of knowing what might be in a package at run time. So it could not 
> fabricate the necessary locals.

Does it have to be done at compile time? Couldn't the import function 
simply iterate over all the members of math and put them in the local 
namespace? Or is that not possible somehow?

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