Absolute imports?

From	Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Absolute imports?
Date	2014-02-15 10:06 -0500
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID	<roy-34FC23.10062115022014@news.panix.com> (permalink)

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http://docs.python.org/2/whatsnew/2.5.html says:

"Once absolute imports are the default, import string will always find 
the standard libraryšs 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?

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.

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Absolute imports? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-15 10:06 -0500
  Re: Absolute imports? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-16 02:26 +1100
  Re: Absolute imports? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-15 16:46 +0100

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