[Python-Dev] Relative vs. absolute imports
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Mon May 17 11:15:24 EDT 2004
Phillip J. Eby 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.
If "import os" is supposed to map to an absolute import
you will have to change the semantics of __import__ because
simply passing "os" to that API is going to implement the
standard 'local, then absolute' import scheme.
--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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