[Python-Dev] Relative imports in Py3k (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sat Sep 25 15:52:10 CEST 2010

Am 25.09.2010 15:15, schrieb anatoly techtonik:

Hi,

I wonder if situation with relative imports in packages is improved in Python 3k or we are still doomed to a chain of hacks? My user story: I am currently debugging project, which consists of many modules in one package. Each module has tests or other useful stuff for debug in its main section, but it is a disaster to use it, because I can't just execute the module file and expect it to find relatives. All imports are like: from spyderlib.config import geticon from spyderlib.utils.qthelpers import translate, addactions, createaction PEP 328 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/ proposes: from ... import config from ..utils.qthelpers import translate, addactions, createaction But this doesn't work, and I couldn't find any short user level explanation why it is not possible to make this work at least in Py3k without additional magic.

Uh, "this doesn't work" is a report that every developer loves. I suppose Python does raise an exception with a message?

For diagnosing this, you should also at least include from which module you're trying to executing these import statements.

Georg

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