[Python-Dev] Re: Relative import

Dec. 16, 2003


      Guido van Rossum wrote:
...
...
from OPAL.Modules.Financial.Reports.COGS import generate, webOptions,
                                                normalize, row_ops,
                                                summary
instead of:
from OPAL.Modules.Financial.Reports.COGS import generate, webOptions, \
                                                normalize, row_ops,   \
                                                summary
This has been a minor nit that bothers just under the threshold of fixing it
myself.  ;)
I guess this could be implemented by allowing [NEWLINE] after the
comma in the grammar.
But I'm -0 on this change; I fear that someone accidentally adding a
trailing comma (or leaving it in after some rearrangements) will be
very puzzled at the syntax error that comes somewhere in the middle of
the next statement:
from foo import bar,
bufsize = 12
          ^syntax error
you could require parentheses:

    from OPAL.Modules.Financial.Reports.COGS import (
        generate, webOptions, normalize, row_ops,
        summary
    )

(after all, from-import is a kind of assignment, and "a, b = c" is
the same thing as "(a, b) = c"...)

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[Python-Dev] Re: Relative import

Fredrik Lundh