Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@iinet.net.au>:
A: from __absolute__.dotted.name import foo B: from __relative__.dotted.name import bar C: from __heirarchy__.dotted.name import foobar D: from dotted.name import barfoo
Then Guido's migration plan would apply to the progression of the D semantics from the Python 2.3 model to being a shorthand for the absolute semantics.
And once _that_ has happened, then we could get rid of the '__absolute__' version in the name of TOOWTDI.
That's where I disagree - I think that type C semantics should be the default/least ugly/easiest to get, not type A. But I wouldn't like any of the others to be as ugly as those, either. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+