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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed Dec 17 11:14:03 EST 2003 

>> Is funny punctuation really the right way to spell an important
>> distinction like this?

Tim> That's what I've been wondering. I really don't like the proposal
Tim> to use . in various places to signify relative and absolute
Tim> imports. It seems non-obvious both in understandability and
Tim> readability.

Agreed. Let's shoot for something more Pythonic. I can imagine having to count periods in import statements in much the way I used to have to count closing parens in Lisp code on a CDC Cyber (way before I had ever heard of language-sensitive editing).

Skip

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