[Python-Dev] New relative import issue (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Sep 19 06:15:50 CEST 2006

On 9/18/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Armin Rigo wrote: > My (limited) understanding of the motivation for relative imports is > that they are only here as a transitional feature. Fully-absolute > imports are the official future. Guido does seem to have a dislike for relative imports, but I don't really understand why. The usefulness of being able to make a package self-contained and movable to another place in the package hierarchy without hacking it seems self-evident to me.

It is more of how relative imports used to be inherent and thus have no clear way to delineate that an import was being done using a relative path compared to an absolute one.

What's happening in Py3k? Will relative imports still

exist?

Using the dot notation, yes they will exist in Py3K.

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