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One language change is a small syntactic tweak aimed at making it
easier to import many names from a module. In a
from module import names statement,
names is a sequence of names separated by commas. If the sequence is
very long, you can either write multiple imports from the same module,
or you can use backslashes to escape the line endings like this:
from SimpleXMLRPCServer import SimpleXMLRPCServer,\
SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler,\
CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler,\
resolve_dotted_attribute
The syntactic change in Python 2.4 simply allows putting the names
within parentheses. Python ignores newlines within a parenthesized
expression, so the backslashes are no longer needed:
from SimpleXMLRPCServer import (SimpleXMLRPCServer,
SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler,
CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler,
resolve_dotted_attribute)
The PEP also proposes that all import statements be absolute
imports, with a leading "." character to indicate a relative
import. This part of the PEP was not implemented for Python 2.4,
but was completed for Python 2.5.
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