[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 328 -- relative and multi-line import

[Bill Janssen]

> I do wish to caution against assuming the problem is trivial.

I've been down this road myself, and I think I understand the problem.
However, whenever I've made changes of this break-itude, I've always
done it in a major release.  Changing things this way in a minor
release just seems hostile to me.  Remember that one of the major
reasons people use Python (instead of, say, Scheme) is the availability
of lots of packages written in Python to do various things.  Making
those packages buggy is a suboptimal way to win friends and influence
people.

Bill