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

[Guido van Rossum]

> I guess going grocery shopping removed my voice in this area *wink*.

Actually it was long ago decided that the pronouncement would be
either one dot or multiple dots; other ideas have been removed from
consideration.

> There was a thread on an a VMS-style relative package option that used
> negative integers for a relative imports.  The thread with this line of
> thought starts with Stephen Horne's post here:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl3068059620d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&selm=ra4q401p3ld92uthl6l34u8vfqq39567n0%404ax.com
> 
> I personally like that it is concise for deeply nested relative imports,
> and doesn't require counting of dots.  We didn't really get any 'elder
> developers' to comment on that syntax.

OK, since you asked: Yuck.

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