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

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun May 9 21:44:09 EDT 2004

On Mon, May 10, 2004, Greg Ewing wrote:

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au>:

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. I don't understand why absolute imports should be regarded as the "standard approach". Absolute imports are appropriate for some things, relative imports are appropriate for other things. You can't say that one is "standard" and the other isn't.

The way I'd put it is that relative imports are used only by experts: people building chunks of Python code large enough to require packages. Therefore absolute imports make more sense as the default.

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