PEP 328 update

[Dieter Maurer]

Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> writes on Sun, 2 May 2004 15:20:32 -0400:
> One area where feedback is
> particularly desired is on the frequency of relative imports inside
> packages in current code, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of
> all imports.

All my local module/subpackage references inside a package use relative
imports. I never followed the style guide with respect to
absolute import paths because this had made my packages less
relocatable.

Zope makes essential use of local imports for its
"Products" magic:

  It supports several (configurable) locations where
  extensions products can come from.
  Any such product should be importable through
  "from Products import product".
  It achieves this by extending its main "Products" "__path__"
  attribute with the additional locations.

  This might be unaffected by PEP 328.

Dieter