[Python-Dev] question/comment about documentation of relative imports (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Oct 5 18🔞18 CEST 2010

On 05/10/2010 17:13, Simon Cross wrote:

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Darren Dale<dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:

from ...sys import path

Note that while that last case is legal, it is certainly discouraged ("insane" was the word Guido used). Only if by "legal" you mean "happened to work". It stops "happening to work" in Python 2.6.6. :) Generally I'm +0 on relative imports as a whole.

As the OP pointed out, for code that may be included in other projects there is no other choice. This is often useful for packages shared between one or two projects that nonetheless don't warrant separate distribution.

All the best,

Michael

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