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On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:02:34 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On my wishlist for Python is a big, fat SyntaxError for any variable
> that could be interpreted as either local or nonlocal and is not
> explicitly declared as either.  It would eliminate this sort of
> confusion entirely and make code that shadows nonlocal variables much
> more readable.
>
	Which now makes code dependent upon changes to some imported modules
if someone is foolish enough to use the 

	from xyz import *

notation...

	I'd be very displeased if working code with local names suddenly
fails because some third-party package was updated.

	Yes, I prefer not to use the "from...*" notation, but how many
tutorials (especially of GUI toolkits, with their dozens of constants)
illustrate using the wildcard?
-- 
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