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Author	Julian
Recipients	Julian, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, ncoghlan, r.david.murray
Date	2011-08-22.21:28:12
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Message-id	<1314048493.27.0.873878988141.issue12782@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> we explicitly advise against importing too many modules in a single import statement, but importing multiple names from a single location is often a useful thing to do. Cool. I imagined this had to do with it. > there may be a grammar ambiguity problem in this case, since (unlike from-import) with statements allow arbitrary subexpressions. Sorry, can you possibly clarify where the ambiguity might come in?

>  we explicitly advise against importing too many modules in a single import statement, but importing multiple names from a single location is often a useful thing to do.

Cool. I imagined this had to do with it.

> there may be a grammar ambiguity problem in this case, since (unlike from-import) with statements allow arbitrary subexpressions.

Sorry, can you possibly clarify where the ambiguity might come in?

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2011-08-22 21:28:13	Julian	set	recipients: + Julian, georg.brandl, ncoghlan, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, r.david.murray
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