[Python-Dev] Alternative Approach to Relative Imports

[Greg Ward]

On 22 September 1999, Guido van Rossum said:
> Yes, please.  Do the long-term understandable thing here.  I expect
> not too many packages have defined subpackages (or submodules) whose
> name conflicts with a standard library module, so you ought to be
> pretty safe here!

Especially since doing so doesn't work: for example, the
distutils.errors module started life as distutils.exceptions.  That
changed pretty quickly, once I realized why putting

   import exceptions

into other distutils modules didn't work -- obviously it didn't find my
distutils.exceptions.  Arguably I should have used an absolute import,
but what the heck.

        Greg
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