[Python-Dev] Relative vs. absolute imports
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Mon May 17 21:36:31 EDT 2004
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 18:36, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> I still don't believe that we need to break code in order
> to introduce relative imports, though, certainly not
> before Py3k.
One to to "fix" this in a backward compatible way is to instead
introduce a spelling for "really, import this absolutely", e.g.
from __python__ import re
or
import __python__.re
and leave the current import semantics alone, for Python 2.x. I know
Guido's not in favor of this approach though.
-Barry
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