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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Dec 18 12:50:41 EST 2003

[Ken Manheimer]

+1 for the '.' proposal, where (to verify my understanding):

- '.' indicates "import from the current package", '..' means "import from the package of my package", and so forth, - imports where the package part lacks a leading '.' are absolute, ie from the top level of the path. -1 for the '...' proposal, where '...' means a search from the current package up to the most superior containing package (which is actually a virtual package that entails the entire path). Ie, i am for absolute being the default and explicit-relative being available, and against ambiguous relative aka scanning the hierarchy. (I might be convinced otherwise about the scanning deal, but i think the more deterministic we can make imports, while still keeping them flexible enough to do what people need, the better.)

Thanks! Your vote is especially important for me because as far as I can remember you proposed the scan-up rule for the very first version of "ni" that we developed together back in 1995!

I also like your proposal for a "no ambiguous imports" flag

from future import absoluteimport

OK. Wanna write a PEP? Just kidding, I know you have less time than I do for it. So... anybody wanna write a PEP about this? (The parentheses proposal should also be folded in.)

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

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