[Python-Dev] Some comments on PEP 328 (absolute/relative imports)

[Aahz]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
>
> What I'm missing here is an explanation *why* this is the proposed
> solution.  From my point of view the problem happens too rarely to
> justify breaking existing code.  It's not even difficult to come up with
> a backwards compatible solution.  

Barry, would you please write up something for the PEP here?  (You're
the person who pushed this the most.)  I've already updated the PEP to
include clarification of the shadowing issue.
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