[Pyrex] Wish: from foo cimport *

[Greg Ewing]

John J Lee <jjl at pobox.com>:

> I hardly ever use import * in Python.  However, in Pyrex, it seems it
> would be very useful.  I have a huge list of cdefs in my .pyx file, which
> I'd like to shovel into a .pxd.  If I do that, though, I'd have to rewrite
> all my C symbols with some prefix, where I'd much prefer to import them
> unqualified:

I can see your point, and it shouldn't be difficult to
allow this for cimport (since the compiler knows all the
names that are being exported). I'll add it to my list.

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