[Import-sig] Why add '' to sys.path if there's an __init__.py?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Guido van Rossum writes:
 > But the expectation is that you can import stuff from the current
 > directory, and that's violated here.  That's what I meant.

  I think that expectation is broken if the current directory is
inside a package -- it was originally set up before we had packages.

 > But if I chdir into somebody else's Lib/test directory, I expect that
 > I can do this:

  And I say the expectation is wrong.  I can't think of anything but
Lib/test/ that works this way, and we've decided (in python-dev as I
recall) that package-relative imports should be discouraged.  Instead,
cd to Lib/ and import test.autotest.


  -Fred

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