[Python-Dev] PEP 328, relative imports and Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Wed Apr 21 15:56:22 CEST 2010

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

While talking about Python 2.6 -> 2.7 transitions, the subject of relative and absolute imports has come up.  PEP 328 states that absolute imports will be enabled by default in Python 2.7, however I cannot verify that this has actually happened.

I'm fairly sure it hasn't. I brought this up on python-dev in February (around Feb 2nd; thread entitled 'Absolute imports in Python 2.x'), but for some reason I can only find the tail end of that thread on mail.python.org:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-February/097458.html

Python 2.7?  If not, given that we're into beta, I don't think we can do it now, so I would suggest updating the PEP.

Agreed. There's also the question of whether deprecation warnings or -3 warnings should be raised; see

http://bugs.python.org/issue7844

Mark

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