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

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Dec 18 16:57:39 EST 2003


Paul Moore <pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk>:

If that's what you'd like a vote on, I prefer the triple-dot proposal.

How would you spell relative references to parent packages using the triple-dot version? Remember we've dropped the idea of search-upwards, so that would have to be made explicit somehow.

pkg_init.py:_ print "importing pkg" import a pkg\a.py: print "importing a" import b pkg\b.py: print "importing b"

>>> import pkg importing pkg importing a importing b Is the proposal that any of this stop working?

I think the proposal is for it to keep working for backwards compatibility now, but to stop working in Python 3.0. Is that correct?

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