[Python-ideas] Pseudo-package for current directory

[Random832]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016, at 11:54, Chris Angelico wrote:
> It'd be a backward-incompatible change, so it would need to be
> explicitly invoked. Something like:
> 
> python3 -p somefile.py
> 
> which would pretend to create an __init__.py in the current directory,
> change to the parent, and "from dirname import somefile".

"#!/usr/bin/env python3 -p" won't work on many systems. So I think it'd
be better as a magic statement within the file (possibly simply a
future-import, with the possibility of eventually making it the default
behavior), rather than a command-line argument.