[Python-Dev] Why does PEP 8 advise against explicit relative imports?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 16 July 2013 22:27, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> These are good reasons, but they're not the reasons the PEP currently
> gives. "Better failure modes" is a good practical benefit :)

I have now included an updated rationale for this rule in the patch
attached to http://bugs.python.org/issue18472 (the recommendation to
use absolute imports remains unchanged).

Cheers,
Nick.


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