On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 11:03, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'd much rather invent new syntax to spell *local* imports. I like
from .module import something
You can even generalize and write
from ..module import something
to reference your package's parent package. :-)
Actually, if truth be told, I'd love to just ban local imports. I understand that might be controversial though <wink>.
Works for me. :-)
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? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)