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

Ken Manheimer klm at zope.com
Thu Dec 18 13:07:11 EST 2003

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote:

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!

Older and*/*or wiser?-)

FWIW, i also proposed using a leading '.' (and a leading '_', when '.' was refused because the parser couldn't handle it) for what we're now calling explict relative imports.

Ken klm at zope.com

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