On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 12:07, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Actually, if truth be told, I'd love to just ban local imports. I understand that might be controversial though <wink>.
Works for me. :-)
Yay! :)
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.
Well, but since you want all imports to be global, it'd be insane to introduce *new* syntax for global imports, wouldn't it?
If we banned relative (a.k.a. local) imports, yes definitely. from __future__ global_imports ? pep-time-ly y'rs, -Barry