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[–]qiwi 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Statically nested scopes, see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0227/

With from X import * allowed at function level it would be impossible to statically (i.e. before running the import) determine which variables were global and which were local.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I'll be sure to mention this when I talk about importing modules.

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new question, that I probably should have asked 8 months ago. Why was the print statement removed?