Dec. 15, 2003
6:42 p.m.
I don't understand the desire to totally prevent relative imports.
It's because of TOOWTDI.
It would be quite useful in avoiding growing module-naming problems, where you have to be careful about shadowing a global module with one in your package.
I don't see the problem, or I misuderstand what "it" refers to; it seems you have this backwards if it refers to relative imports. Say my package P defines a submodule sys. If we require absolute imports, there is no ambiguity: the submodule sys must be imported as P.sys while the standard sys module can be imported as simply sys. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)