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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Dec 17 23:48:08 EST 2003

> I cannot accept scan-up as default

In that case, it's probably better not to have it at all, and I'd go for your first proposal. One leading dot seems to stand out pretty well to my eyes -- more is not necessary.

But you're okay with two or more dots for extra levels up, right?

(Note that this leading-dot algorithm is nearly the same as the old MacOS pathname syntax, except they did it with colons: :foo was foo in the current directory, ::foo was foo in the parent directory, etc., and foo:bar was an absolute pathname. The only difference is that for backwards compatibility reasons they interpreted no colons as relative to the current directory rather than absolute.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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