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On 9/18/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Armin Rigo wrote:

> My (limited) understanding of the motivation for relative imports is
> that they are only here as a transitional feature.  Fully-absolute
> imports are the official future.


Guido does seem to have a dislike for relative imports,
but I don't really understand why. The usefulness of
being able to make a package self-contained and movable
to another place in the package hierarchy without hacking

it seems self-evident to me.

It is more of how relative imports used to be inherent and thus have no clear way to delineate that an import was being done using a relative path compared to an absolute one.


What's happening in Py3k? Will relative imports still
exist?


Using the dot notation, yes they will exist in Py3K.

-Brett