[Python-Dev] Re: Python-Dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 57 (original) (raw)

Werner Schiendl ws-news at gmx.at
Tue Dec 16 16:02:30 EST 2003

Hi,

"Edward Loper" <edloper at gradient.cis.upenn.edu> wrote

Guido said: > [...] I propose not to change from-less import. What's the motivation for restricting it to from-imports? I suspect that this will cause confusion, and it doesn't feel self-consistent to me: why can you call a module ".foo" in one context, and not in another? In particular, I think that if people see that you can do: from .foo import * Then they'll assume that they can also do: import .foo

The problem is probably, to what name should the module be bound? Variable names are not allowed to contain a leading dot.

But it would be possible to say:

import .foo as my_foo import foo

and access both through modules through the name they're bound to.

Therefore I'd propose to allow relative from-less imports, but require them to always use the "as" clause.

regards

Werner

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