[Python-Dev] relative import circular problem (original) (raw)

Richard Oudkerk shibturn at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 18:26:04 CEST 2013

On 04/04/2013 4:17pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I don't really see what we could change to avoid breaking code in any particular case -- the burden is up to the library to do it right. I don't see a reason to forbid any of this either.

How about having a form of relative import which only works for submodules. For instance, instead of

 from . import moduleX

write

 import .moduleX

which is currently a SyntaxError. I think this could be implemented as

 moduleX = importlib.import_module('.moduleX', __package__)

-- Richard

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