[Python-Dev] New relative import issue

[Brett Cannon]

On 9/18/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> Armin Rigo wrote:
>
> > My (limited) understanding of the motivation for relative imports is
> > that they are only here as a transitional feature.  Fully-absolute
> > imports are the official future.
>
> Guido does seem to have a dislike for relative imports,
> but I don't really understand why. The usefulness of
> being able to make a package self-contained and movable
> to another place in the package hierarchy without hacking
> it seems self-evident to me.


It is more of how relative imports used to be inherent and thus have no
clear way to delineate that an import was being done using a relative path
compared to an absolute one.

What's happening in Py3k? Will relative imports still
> exist?


Using the dot notation, yes they will exist in Py3K.

-Brett
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