Redirecting to python-ideas.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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__)
We considered that when relative import was designed and rejected it,
because it violates the expectation that after "import <some string>"
you can use exactly "<some string>" in your code.
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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
