24 Feb
2011
24 Feb
'11
1:13 a.m.
On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
It says they are "highly discouraged" because "absolute imports are more portable and usually more readable", but now that people have had a chance to use explicit relative imports, do people still believe this? I mean if we truly believed this then why did we add the syntax? I know I have used it and love it, let alone that I don't buy the portability argument.
I agree with others that explicit relative imports should still be discouraged. I've run into problems with them where imports break under some situations. I don't remember the details, but I think it was when running unittests or under -m or something. Yeah, I should file a bug next time I run into it.
-Barry