[Python-Dev] Relative vs. absolute imports
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Mon May 17 11:04:15 EDT 2004
At 04:55 PM 5/17/04 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>At 03:42 PM 5/17/04 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>
>>>I have a few questions about the PEP 328 which I'd like discussed:
>>>
>>>* Why do we absolutely need to change the current scheme
>>> of 'local, then absolute' for name resolution ?
>>Because there's no way to override the current scheme without calling
>>__import__ directly.
>
>Are you saying that you are not going to change the default __import__()
>implementation, only the way it is called ? (I wonder how you'll
>enforce the 'absolute only' strategy then)
Huh? You lost me. What 'absolute only'? There's "from .x import y"
still, and that's relative.
As far as I know, nothing about __import__ is changing, only the spelling
of import statements.
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