Guido van Rossum wrote:

#- There is the remaining issue of what exactly the syntax would be. I #- propose to extend the from clause to allow one or more dots #- before the #- dotted name, and to make the dotted name optional if at least one #- leading dot is found. I propose not to change from-less import.

Don't know the restrictions, as never used the package feature in modules, but seems natural to me to use the same syntax that in a unix filesystem (maybe without the '/'?).

This way, you can reference a module in your level, in an upper level, etc...

. Facundo