Re: Python programs and relative imports

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On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Rob Gaddi
<rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote:
> Rob Gaddi wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know the history of why relative imports are only available
>> for packages and not for "programs"?  It certainly complicates life.
>>
>
> Really, no one?  It seems like a fairly obvious thing to have included;
> all of the reasons that you want to be explicit in saying:
>
>   from . import mypkg
>
> in a package apply just as well in an executable script.  But instead,
> they've got different semantics such that you expressly _cannot_ use
> relative imports in a script.  This feels like such a glaring oversight
> that there must have been some rationale behind it.

You can use the simple "import mypkg" syntax to load these up. I'm not
sure what you're looking for - do you want to prevent that syntax from
working, to prevent accidental shadowing?

ChrisA

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Python programs and relative imports Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-04-04 17:07 +0000
  Re: Python programs and relative imports Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-04-08 16:59 +0000
    Re: Python programs and relative imports Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 03:11 +1000
      Re: Python programs and relative imports Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-04-08 17:50 +0000
        Re: Python programs and relative imports Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 04:04 +1000
        Re: Python programs and relative imports Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 12:26 -0600

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