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

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Wed Dec 17 18:08:17 EST 2003

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Werner Schiendl wrote: [...]

There should be some solution about from-less import however, to support the fully-qualified name syntax. For example, I prefer writing "struct.pack" over writing just "pack" because it is more explicit to the reader what happens. Or e. g. os.path.split is another example.

Yes.

Maybe just omit the dots for the name?

As Guido pointed out, it would be a shame to break the rule that 'import x' currently lets you refer to plain old 'x'. And it would be ugly to have '.x' appear in programs, I think (and Guido mentioned with statements, though maybe he's kidding about that).

So, why not this?

from ... import x

John

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