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

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Dec 17 23:53:18 EST 2003


Guido:

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

Yes, that's fine.

(Note that this leading-dot algorithm is nearly the same as the old MacOS pathname syntax

I noticed that, too. Also I think VMS did something similar with dots in its pathnames. So there are precedents...

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