Redirecting to python-ideas. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Richard Oudkerk <shibturn@gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/04/2013 4:17pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I don't really see what we could change to avoid breaking code in any particular case -- the burden is up to the library to do it right. I don't see a reason to forbid any of this either.
How about having a form of relative import which only works for submodules. For instance, instead of
from . import moduleX
write
import .moduleX
which is currently a SyntaxError. I think this could be implemented as
moduleX = importlib.import_module('.moduleX', __package__)
We considered that when relative import was designed and rejected it, because it violates the expectation that after "import <some string>" you can use exactly "<some string>" in your code. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)