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

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat Apr 17 20:53:56 EDT 2004

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004, Greg Ewing wrote:

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.

So you're saying that your applications are all put together in a single package? Or that there isn't much in the way of inter-package imports? Could you show us the header of one of your modules as an example?

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.

Actually, it's Barry's hobbyhorse.

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