[Python-Dev] Re: Relative import (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Dec 16 14:36:36 EST 2003

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> from OPAL.Modules.Financial.Reports.COGS import generate, webOptions, > normalize, rowops, > summary > > instead of: > _> from OPAL.Modules.Financial.Reports.COGS import generate, webOptions, _ _> normalize, rowops, _ > summary > > > This has been a minor nit that bothers just under the threshold of fixing it > myself. ;)

I guess this could be implemented by allowing [NEWLINE] after the comma in the grammar. But I'm -0 on this change; I fear that someone accidentally adding a trailing comma (or leaving it in after some rearrangements) will be very puzzled at the syntax error that comes somewhere in the middle of the next statement: from foo import bar, bufsize = 12 ^syntax error

you could require parentheses:

from OPAL.Modules.Financial.Reports.COGS import (
    generate, webOptions, normalize, row_ops,
    summary
)

(after all, from-import is a kind of assignment, and "a, b = c" is the same thing as "(a, b) = c"...)

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