[Python-Dev] Another relative imports question

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 09.10.2010 01:35, schrieb Greg Ewing:
> Georg Brandl wrote:
>> The explanation is that everything that comes after "import" is
>> thereafter
>> usable as an identifier (or expression, in the case of dotted names) in
>> code.  ".mymodule" is not a valid expression, so the question would be
>> how
>> to refer to it.
> 
> I think a reasonable answer is that you should be able
> to refer to it simply as 'mymodule'.

I don't think that's reasonable:

import xml.dom

doesn't give you dom, but xml.

So

import .dom

shouldn't give you dom, but . (which is nonsensical, of course).

Regards,
Martin