[Python-Dev] question/comment about documentation of relative imports (original) (raw)
Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Tue Oct 5 20:03:52 CEST 2010
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If they were actively discouraged, perhaps performing a relative import would raise a warning, This would be done if this import style was deprecated. It’s different from it being discouraged.
or maybe distutils would raise a warning at install time, Distutils does not inspect source files.
Up until now, I was not aware that use of PEP 328 relative imports might be discouraged. I'm still unclear as to why they might be discouraged. I think relative imports are a nice thing. I think they’ve been added because there are people who want them, and the previous implicit relative imports caused so much pain. Neither the FAQ you quote nor PEP 8 really explain what’s bad about explicit relative imports.
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