<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">guido.van.rossum</b> <<a href="mailto:python-checkins@python.org">python-checkins@python.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Use relative imports in a few places where I noticed the need.<br>(Ideally, all packages in Python 2.5 will use the relative import<br>syntax for all their relative import needs.)</blockquote><div><br>You should be aware that using relative imports (or absolute imports) in the standard library may cause custom __import__'s that don't take the optional fifth argument to break, whereas using 'old-style' imports does not. I don't know how common custom __import__ hooks are, and adding the optional fifth argument is backwardly compatible, but I would personally not add absolute or relative imports to the oft-used parts of the stdlib until after
2.5.<br><br>On the other hand, code using sys.path_hooks (like zipimport) don't need any tweaking, as the absolute/relative choice is made before they are queried, so I don't know howmuch impact this has, all in all.<br></div>
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