News about from...import.

Misc/NEWS

@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@ What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 1?
 
 Core language, builtins, and interpreter
 
+- Two changes to from...import:
+
+  1) "from M import X" now works even if M is not a real module; it's
+     basically a getattr() operation with AttributeError exceptions
+     changed into ImportError.
+
+  2) "from M import *" now looks for M.__all__ to decide which names to
+     import; if M.__all__ doesn't exist, it uses M.__dict__.keys() but
+     filters out names starting with '_' as before.  Whether or not
+     __all__ exists, there's no restriction on the type of M.
+
 - File objects have a new method, xreadlines().  This is the fastest
   way to iterate over all lines in a file: