[Python-Dev] Another relative imports question (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Oct 8 12:31:49 CEST 2010

Am 08.10.2010 10:50, schrieb Chris Withers:

Hi All,

The new explicit relative import syntax is great. I wanted to relatively import a module. import .mymoduleinmypackage ....and got a SyntaxError in Python 2.6. I guess I need to do: from . import mymoduleinmypackage ....but it does feel weirdly asymetric that: from .mymoduleinmypackage import something ....while: import .mymoduleinmypackage mymoduleinmypackage.something ....does not.

The explanation is that everything that comes after "import" is thereafter usable as an identifier (or expression, in the case of dotted names) in code. ".mymodule" is not a valid expression, so the question would be how to refer to it.

(This argument is weakened in the present of an "as" renaming, but I doubt you'd like to write

import .mymodule as mymodule

.)

Georg

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