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add note about two kinds of illegal imports that are now checked

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Jeremy Hylton 2001-01-30 01:27:28 +00:00
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@ -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