Dec. 15, 2003
6:04 p.m.
>> Okay, so what are global and local imports? Barry> Sorry, let me rephrase. I'd love to ban relative imports. Barry> Personally, I think all imports should be specified using Barry> fully-qualified absolute package paths. That's fine with me. Maybe continue to use "absolute" and "relative" (and throw in "package" somewhere) instead of "global" and "local" when referring to package import semantics? "global" and "local" have a well-established meaning in day-to-day Python programming which doesn't overlap much with the import mechanism. Skip