[Python-Dev] Relative vs. absolute imports
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Thu May 20 19:02:46 EDT 2004
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> I don't object absolute imports at all, but I like the
> possibilitiy to package'ify existing Python module/module
> sets by simply copying them into a newly created package
> directory.
Doesn't PEP 328 actually make it *easier* to 'packagise' an existing module?
If it wasn't in a package before, all of its imports *must* be absolute.
With PEP 328, you can copy it into a package, and it will continue to
work as before. With the current scheme, I understand that the newly
packagised module may break if any if its new sibling modules shadow
something in the standard library, site-packages or sys.path.
Cheers,
Nick.
Neologisms ahoy!
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