[Python-Dev] Relative imports in Py3k (original) (raw)

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 17:27:44 CEST 2010

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

I wonder if situation with relative imports in packages is improved in Python 3k or we are still doomed to a chain of hacks? My user story: ... PEP 328 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/  proposes: from ... import config from ..utils.qthelpers import translate, addactions, createaction But this doesn't work, and I couldn't find any short user level explanation why it is not possible to make this work at least in Py3k without additional magic. Uh, "this doesn't work" is a report that every developer loves.  I suppose Python does raise an exception with a message?

It is not a bug report. It is a "user story" - that means the thing that I, as a user of Python, assumed to work. But instead have got:

ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package

There are init.py files in every directory of spyderlib, but I don't want to debug or seek a workarounds against this in Python 2. I just want to know if relative imports are fixed in Python 3.

-- anatoly t.

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