[Python-Dev] Re: Christmas Wishlist (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Dec 15 11:40:14 EST 2003

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 11:03, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'd much rather invent new syntax to spell local imports. I like

from .module import something You can even generalize and write from ..module import something to reference your package's parent package. :-)

Actually, if truth be told, I'd love to just ban local imports. I understand that might be controversial though .

The next best thing would be to force local imports to use special syntax (I was going to say "ugly" :) like what you suggest above, but I'm afraid that that might be more disruptive, requiring future imports and such. I think having a syntax for spelling global imports can be done in a backwards compatible way for 2.4.

-Barry

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