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Author	theller
Recipients	theller
Date	2016-12-21.08:13:09
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Message-id	<1482307990.24.0.476248226278.issue29031@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The documentation states that 'from module import ' imports all symbols that are listed in the module's __all__ list. In Python 3, unlike Python 2, only symbols that do NOT start with an underscore are actually imported. The following code works in Python 2.7, but raises a NameError in Python 3.5: python -c "from ctypes.wintypes import ; print(_ULARGE_INTEGER)"

The documentation states that 'from module import *' imports all symbols that are listed in the module's __all__ list.
In Python 3, unlike Python 2, only symbols that do NOT start with an underscore are actually imported.

The following code works in Python 2.7, but raises a NameError
in Python 3.5:
python -c "from ctypes.wintypes import *; print(_ULARGE_INTEGER)"

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Date	User	Action	Args
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2016-12-21 08:13:09	theller	create