Re: Forcing absolute package imports in 2.7?

Path	csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!panix5.panix.com!not-for-mail
From	aahz@pythoncraft.com (Aahz)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Forcing absolute package imports in 2.7?
Date	13 Apr 2011 16:10:06 -0700
Organization	The Cat & Dragon
Lines	20
Message-ID	<io5age$l2s$1@panix5.panix.com> (permalink)
References	<mailman.23.1301538403.2990.python-list@python.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host	panix5.panix.com
X-Trace	reader1.panix.com 1302736207 10073 166.84.1.5 (13 Apr 2011 23:10:07 GMT)
X-Complaints-To	abuse@panix.com
NNTP-Posting-Date	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:10:07 +0000 (UTC)
Xref	x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:3140

Show key headers only | View raw

In article <mailman.23.1301538403.2990.python-list@python.org>,
Michael Parker  <michael.g.parker@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I'm reading Learning Python 4th Edition by Lutz. In the section on
>relative package imports, he says: "In Python 3.0, the `import
>modname` statement is always absolute, skipping the containing
>package=92s directory. In 2.6, this statement form still performs
>relative imports today (i.e., the package=92s directory is searched
>first), but these will become absolute in Python 2.7, too.`
>
>But in my own testing I'm not seeing this behavior. Was it not
>included in 2.7 for fear of breaking too many programs?

from __future__ import absolute_import   
-- 
Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"At Resolver we've found it useful to short-circuit any doubt and just        
refer to comments in code as 'lies'. :-)"
--Michael Foord paraphrases Christian Muirhead on python-dev, 2009-03-22

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Forcing absolute package imports in 2.7? Michael Parker <michael.g.parker@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 19:26 -0700
  Re: Forcing absolute package imports in 2.7? aahz@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) - 2011-04-13 16:10 -0700

csiph-web