[Python-Dev] Import APIs (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sat Mar 10 08:48:01 CET 2007


Currently, all C code that needs to import a module uses PyImport_ImportModule which (1) calls builtin.import (2) attempts relative imports

Most of the time, though, at least (2) is wrong. If we want to keep (1), PyImport_ImportModuleLevel can't be used as a replacement. So there should be a new API, called PyImport_ImportAbsolute that gets a flag whether relative import should be allowed.

Georg



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