__file__ for relative imports

[Michael Hudson]

Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes:

> Is there an obvious reason why modules imported from the current
> directory don't have an absolute pathname for __file__?

No.  I think there's a bug on sf about this.

It would be a bit of a pest to implement, I think, but I may be
missing something.

Cheers,
M.

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