Re: Feedback Needed! Changing how Cheetah handles imports

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:50:10PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:
> 2009/4/16 R. Tyler Ballance <[email protected]>:
> >
> > The decision to be made between "us" as the community is which we want
> > to be the *default* behavior:
> >        1: Non-scoping import behavior (2.0.1 and earlier)
> >        2: Scoping/inline import behavior.(2.1.0 and later)
> >
> >
> > My personal vote is for #2 being the default behavior since it follows
> > Python importing semantics closely (we also have updated our templates
> > at Slide to avoid the issue Martin Skott describes).
> >
> >
> > What say ye all? :)
> 
> I don't care we don't use inline imports at my site, so I can say 2)
> I'm not impacted by any incompatible change in this area :-)

You might! Because of the writeBody() method lumping everything into
itself, unless you put your global imports at the top of the template,
the compiler will presume that you're meaning to import into writeBody
instead of the module's global namespace


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