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

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Tue Dec 16 22:27:52 EST 2003

"Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)" wrote > Is funny punctuation really the right way to spell an important > distinction like this? That's what I've been wondering. I really don't like the proposal to use . in various places to signify relative and absolute imports. It seems non-obvious both in understandability and readability.

I'd have to agree. In the same way that backticks are painful to deal with (they're small and non-obvious), the difference between

from foo import bar

and

from .foo import bar

is too small to be pleasant. I also have to wonder about the use case for .. and ... - looking through my code, I can't see anything where using ... rather than a fully qualified name would make the code any more readable.

-- Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au>
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