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

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Tue Dec 23 12:24:27 EST 2003

Charles Hixson <charleshixsn at earthlink.net> writes:

Not necessarily. import could be a special function that doesn't need parentheses around it's arguments or comma separators. That could be syntax sugar for: import (names, namedAs, fromModule, searchmethod) or import (names =[theNames], namedAd=[localNames], fromModule=fromModule, searchMethod=upFromCurrent)

OTOH, to me it looks more like Smalltalk than like Python. An explicit import function without special sugar looks more Pythonic. (But that would break backward compatibility.) Perhaps the current method could be deprecated, and an import function be the replacement?

I really don't think you could make that work (unless you want to write

math = import("math")

everywhere, which you can almost do today...)

Cheers, mwh

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