[Python-Dev] Relative vs. absolute imports (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed May 19 15:32:05 EDT 2004

On Wed, May 19, 2004, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

At 08:53 PM 5/19/04 +0200, Bernhard Herzog wrote:

Absolute imports have their own difficulties, too, btw, and relative imports don't add much complexity on top of that. I don't think the ambiguity, if you want to call it that, is enough of a problem to justify the incompatibility. IIRC, nobody has suggested eliminating them prior to 3.0, which will have lots of other backward-incompatible changes anyway.

Actually, the current plan is to eliminate relative imports that don't use the new syntax in Python 2.6.

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