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

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 14 02:24:40 EDT 2004

Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com>:

Nope. Absolute imports are the most common form

I don't agree with that. In every major Python application I've written, the vast majority of imports are from other modules of the application, which are most sensibly referenced relatively.

I, too, am quite concerned about the imminent breaking of every existing relative import, apparently because Guido has an ideological objection to relative imports and wants to punish us for having used them so freely over the years.

If he goes ahead with this, I suggest we hack his unix system and remove the ability to use relative pathnames. Let's see how he likes using that. :-)

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