Absolute imports?

[Ben Finney]

Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> writes:

> The filesystem path (if any!) is derived from the name that the module
> will be bound to within the code. That'w why the indirection of
> ‘sys.path’ is necessary: it keeps the mapping between module names and
> filesystem paths.

That phrasing gives the wrong impression; ‘sys.path’ doesn't store that
mapping. I meant only that the indirection of ‘sys.path’ is necessary to
allow Python to maintain that mapping at import time.

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