[Python-Dev] PEP 328, relative imports and Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Apr 21 22:05:33 CEST 2010

On Apr 21, 2010, at 02:56 PM, Mark Dickinson wrote:

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

While talking about Python 2.6 -> 2.7 transitions, the subject of relative and absolute imports has come up.  PEP 328 states that absolute imports will be enabled by default in Python 2.7, however I cannot verify that this has actually happened. I'm fairly sure it hasn't. I brought this up on python-dev in February (around Feb 2nd; thread entitled 'Absolute imports in Python 2.x'), but for some reason I can only find the tail end of that thread on mail.python.org: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-February/097458.html

Python 2.7?  If not, given that we're into beta, I don't think we can do it now, so I would suggest updating the PEP. Agreed. There's also the question of whether deprecation warnings or -3 warnings should be raised; see http://bugs.python.org/issue7844

For the time being, I've removed the sentence from the PEP that says absolute imports will be enabled by default in Python 2.7.

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