[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 328 - Relative Imports (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Sep 10 20:47:56 CEST 2004

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 13:05, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

If that's the only reason, then placing the whole Python standard lib under a new top-level package name would be the better solution, starting with P3k.

One of my earliest suggestions on the topic did just that. In fact, you could do it in a backward compatible way, by introducing an optional global package. E.g.

import logging

That would import the local logging.py module if it existed, otherwise it would import the global logging module. This is exactly what Python does today.

from global import logging

That would always import the global logging package. global is the optional "fake" global package and would only be used when you want to explicitly skip any local imports.

IIRC though, Guido never liked this proposal much. I repost it here on the off chance that he's way too busy to read every message in this thread .

-Barry

-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 307 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20040910/2db44f51/attachment.pgp

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list