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

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 14 20:14:21 EDT 2004

What is the rationale given for not allowing:

import .moduleY as a relative import statement meaning "from the package containing the module running the import statement, import moduleY"?

Probably because it's not clear what name to bind the imported module to, and in what namespace.

With the current import syntax, you refer to the imported module using exactly the same name (or dotted sequence of names) that you used when importing, but that's not possible in this case, because ".moduleY" is not a valid Python expression.

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