Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; '"this': 0.03; 'tree': 0.05; 'python3': 0.07; 'string': 0.09; 'default.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; "wouldn't": 0.14; '"standard': 0.16; '__init__.py': 0.16; 'imports': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:dip0.t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:t-ipconnect.de': 0.16; 'roy': 0.16; 'url:whatsnew': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'module': 0.19; 'appears': 0.22; 'import': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'precise': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'absolute': 0.30; 'relative': 0.30; 'default,': 0.31; 'directory,': 0.31; 'url:python': 0.33; 'but': 0.35; 'version': 0.36; 'doing': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'searching': 0.37; 'somebody': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'files': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'future': 0.60; 'url:5': 0.61; 'become': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'smith': 0.68; 'default': 0.69; '(probably': 0.84; 'does?': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> Subject: Re: Absolute imports? Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:46:31 +0100 Organization: None References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p57bdacce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: KNode/4.7.3 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 43 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1392479197 news.xs4all.nl 2862 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:60013 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:66452 Roy Smith wrote: > http://docs.python.org/2/whatsnew/2.5.html says: > > "Once absolute imports are the default, import string will always find > the standard library¹s version." > > Experimentally, it appears that modules in site-packages are also found > by absolute imports. I wouldn't consider site-packages to be part of > the "standard library". Can somebody give me a more precise description > of what absolute import does? Basically, if module foo.bar contains an `import baz` with relative imports python will look for foo.baz before searching for baz in sys.path; with absolute imports `from . import baz` will only look for baz in the current package while `import baz` will only search sys.path. > It also says, "This absolute-import behaviour will become the default in > a future version (probably Python 2.7)", but it appears that 2.7.6 is > still doing relative by default. $ tree . ├── baz.py └── foo ├── bar.py ├── baz.py └── __init__.py 1 directory, 4 files $ cat baz.py print("import is absolute") $ cat foo/baz.py print("import is relative") $ cat foo/bar.py import baz $ python -c 'import foo.bar' import is relative $ python3 -c 'import foo.bar' import is absolute