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

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Is anyone championing PEP 328?  This is planned for inclusion in 2.4,
> > but not much movement has happened.  If it's stuck on the decision
> > whether to use multiple dots (one per level up) or a single dot (to
> > indicate searching upwards until found), I'm willing to pronounce that
> > it should be multiple dots.
> > 
> > At least "from . import X" and "from .. import X" are completely clear
> > and more levels up are not likely to occur in practice...
> 
> I'm working on producing an edit, but if you just want to Pronounce,
> that's fine with me.  There hasn't been a lot of emotion attached, and
> nobody has gotten seriously annoyed with the multiple dot idea.

Consider it Pronounced.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)