[Python-Dev] Relative import

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Dec 18 01:52:32 EST 2003


On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:04, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Maybe in Python 3.0 the current directory should appear as a
> package with some standard name. Then applications could use
> relative imports to import their own modules, and absolute
> ones to import standard modules, without fear of conflict.

In a previous thread, we already came up with __me__ as a magic name
referring to the current module.  Let's use __my__ as the prefix for
importing a relative module.

too-tired-to-wink-ly y'rs,
-Barry





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