[Python-Dev] PEP 328: import...as with relative import (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Fri May 7 08:07:04 EDT 2004

Greg Ewing wrote:

I can see your point of view. It just seems a bit strange coming at from the other direction -- if you can say 'import a.b as z' there doesn't seem to be any good reason not to say 'import ..a.b as z'. I can imagine people getting tripped up by this.

I guess you're right that it doesn't matter much either way.

The other point in favour of the current way is that a bare import statement is always absolute, which further encourages absolute imports as the standard approach.

It's only once someone starts playing with the 'from' syntax for import that they need to know about the difference between absolute and relative import.

Regards, Nick.

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