Re: [Python-Dev] Relative import

Dec. 16, 2003


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On a related and minor note, can we please expand the grammar to allow
from...import statements to continue to the next line after a trailing
comma?  For those of us with large, complex, and componentized projects, it
would be very nice.  e.g.:
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

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)