What is bad with "Relative imports"

[Alexander Eisenhuth]

Hi,

PyLint says that "Relative imports" ... are worth to be warned .

And I ask myself why?

----------------- Example directory structure ---------
Sound/				Top-level package
       __init__.py		Initialize the sound package
       Utils/			Subpackage
             __init__.py
             iobuffer.py
	    errors.py
             misc.py
	    ...
       Formats/	

Let's say in misc.py exist the class Player(). What could be bad to expose it in 
  Utils.__init__() like:

------------------ __init__.py -------------------------
import misc # provoke PyLint warning
Player = misc.Player
...
--------------------------------------------------------

with
Sound.Utils.Player() ??

Thaks for your experience and comments

Regards
Alexander