"from . import *"

[bhy]

BPO	9068
Nosy	@brettcannon

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[bhy]

"from . import *" is valid syntax in CPython (both 2.6 and py3k) but in the language reference it is not allowed:

http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-import-statement

[brettcannon]

That's because while it is syntactically allowed, it is semantically disallowed. The grammar rules shown in the docs is a generalization of the actual grammar used to build the parser so that we can take shortcuts with it to simply not have rules that will pass the parser but fail in the compiler.