[Python-Dev] New relative import issue (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 13:25:03 CEST 2006
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Fabio Zadrozny wrote:
I've been playing with the new features and there's one thing about the new relative import that I find a little strange and I'm not sure this was intended...
When you do a from . import xxx, it will always fail if you're in a top-level module, and when executing any module, the directory of the module will automatically go into the pythonpath, thus making all the relative imports in that structure fail.
Correct. Relative imports are based on name and don't work properly if name does not properly reflect the module's position in the package hierarchy (usually because the module is the main module, so name is set to 'main').
This is noted briefly in PEP 328 [1], with the current workarounds explained in more detail in PEP 338 [2].
Cheers, Nick.
[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/#relative-imports-and-name
[2] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0338/#import-statements-and-the-main-module
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