[Python-Dev] Proposed beta 2 changes (Q for Anthony/Neal) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 13:43:56 CEST 2006

Anthony Baxter wrote:

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 22:32, Nick Coghlan wrote:

1. Finishing the modulename workaround to allow relative imports from the main module when using -m. I have some nervousness about this. Are there cases in the stdlib where this is an issue, today? Are there any cases which can't be addressed by using absolute imports? For 2.5, wouldn't it be better to simply say "use absolute imports in this case"?

My nervousness is that I don't want a late change to introduce a language misfeature that we'll all regret later.

I actually come to agree with this POV - particularly after spending some time thinking about how I'd like to it to look in Py3k (with a simple boolean check replacing the name == "main" idiom).

I'll revert the change that added module_name, too. I'd love to fix this properly for 2.5 but the timing of the discovery of the limitation is unfortunately lousy :(

I'll add something to PEP 338, and possibly elsewhere, noting that the -m switch adds the current directory to sys.path, so absolute imports will work fine so long as you invoke Python from the directory containing the relevant top level package directory, even if it isn't anywhere else on sys.path.

Some time between now and late 2007 I'll write something up about the interaction between name, sys.path[0] and implicit relative imports that actually makes implicit relative imports appear to work when a module inside a package is executed directly instead of via -m (probably when I get around to writing a Python 2.6 PEP on the topic).

Heh. I was going to be clever with the PEP number relating to this for 2.6, and I think I've discovered that trying to mix PEP 328 with 338 is going to be a doomed effort - add the PEP numbers together to find out why ;)

2. Adding an 'ignore' filter for ImportWarning at the end of warnings.py Already covered this one in another email... Yes, this seems the best approach for 2.5.

OK, I'll make the change to warnings.py, and update the warnings module documentation. AMK will still need to update What's New.

Cheers, Nick.

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