On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 1:39 AM Florian Wetschoreck
I guess, one potential solution would be to change the import resolution order. But of course, this is a breaking change (at least in implicit semantics - not sure if it will actually lead to too many real-world problems - but probably there will be some) and might only be feasible in a safe way in a new major version? (Or even in a minor version but with other flags or imports from "the past" instead of "future" that restore the old behavior if that is actually important for some users?)
Yes, that would be a breaking change. But here's a potential migration path to consider: Make the script directory into an automatic package. That way, when you specifically *want* to import a nearby file, you can write a relative import: # demo.py print("Hello, world") # example.py from . import demo I'm not sure what the consequences would be on sys.modules; maybe they'd be keyed as, eg, __main__.demo ? ChrisA