[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 328 -- relative and multi-line import (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Sat Apr 10 15:26:56 EDT 2004

I do wish to caution against assuming the problem is trivial.

I've been down this road myself, and I think I understand the problem. However, whenever I've made changes of this break-itude, I've always done it in a major release. Changing things this way in a minor release just seems hostile to me. Remember that one of the major reasons people use Python (instead of, say, Scheme) is the availability of lots of packages written in Python to do various things. Making those packages buggy is a suboptimal way to win friends and influence people.

Bill

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