[Python-Dev] PEP 328: import...as with relative import

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun May 9 21:03:29 EDT 2004


Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au>:

> The other point in favour of the current way is that a bare import 
> statement is *always* absolute, which further encourages absolute 
> imports as the standard approach.

I don't understand why absolute imports should be regarded
as the "standard approach". Absolute imports are appropriate
for some things, relative imports are appropriate for other
things. You can't say that one is "standard" and the other
isn't.

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