Hi,
"Guido van Rossum"
A lot people have presented a good case for relative imports. Nobody has argued to keep the status quo (where imports are ambiguous about whether they are meant to be absolute or relative). So I suggest that in 2.4, we introduce the leading dot notation for relative import, while still allowing relative import without a leading dot.
I'm +1 on it, I'd only wish an additional from __future__ import strict_import (or whatever seems a better name) to allow a module to indicate that every not explicitly relative import should be absolute. This would allow module authors to be explicit from the start and it is also a safety net against accidentially adding a relative module with the name of some absolute one. best regards Werner