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On 04.12.2014 19:05, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> With os.path it definitely is. With the actual code in question, it's
> a Python 2.7 project that mostly uses relative imports - inside
> package.module1 is "import module2" etc - and I was writing an
> external script that calls on one of the modules.

What ? I'm usually thinking Python 3 not 2 and I'm never sure which 
Python 2.x has backported which feature of 3, but I thought implicit 
relative imports like you seem to describe are not working in 2.7 ?

Wolfgang