Dec. 15, 2003
4:40 p.m.
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 11:03, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'd much rather invent new syntax to spell *local* imports. I like
from .module import something
You can even generalize and write
from ..module import something
to reference your package's parent package. :-)
Actually, if truth be told, I'd love to just ban local imports. I understand that might be controversial though <wink>. The next best thing would be to force local imports to use special syntax (I was going to say "ugly" :) like what you suggest above, but I'm afraid that that might be more disruptive, requiring future imports and such. I think having a syntax for spelling global imports can be done in a backwards compatible way for 2.4. -Barry