Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!usenet-fr.net!nerim.net!novso.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!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; 'lines,': 0.07; "subject:' ": 0.07; 'os.path': 0.09; 'subject:modules': 0.09; 'sure,': 0.09; 'subject:question': 0.10; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'python': 0.11; '2.7': 0.14; 'mostly': 0.14; 'foo"': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'imports': 0.16; 'modules.': 0.16; 'shifts': 0.16; 'top-level': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'typing': 0.19; 'import': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; '2.x': 0.24; 'certainly': 0.24; 'directory.': 0.24; "haven't": 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'script': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'external': 0.29; 'feature': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'dec': 0.30; 'relative': 0.30; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; '(which': 0.31; 'code': 0.31; 'usually': 0.31; 'implicit': 0.31; 'fri,': 0.33; 'actual': 0.34; "i'd": 0.34; 'subject:from': 0.34; 'etc': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'project': 0.37; 'question,': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'sure': 0.39; 'is.': 0.60; 'details': 0.65; 'to:none': 0.92 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=yzVfqBYDzzIJ78IzwbL3Mo3ONv0WLqLCyzWC7CZWMyM=; b=XTOS6F2Ajm9VyNTuInKJryLv+fEruYpBlTM4Y3Qpz7PD6EWOoEZZTQ+pdhckt4HJ4T CH0ZGaC40oNSlLyDamXswehAAUnZ8Ej0bG0R1gA+bmvi30pZ1/icOesXpOVubbGvXsUI morSXH6Ycr49NdDIKjA5vL0zQTGolJvNkwUT+K2OcOKlCX7GD26Dj4jlRpt/sbJxPI9f p0BNeSFRaSzZqyodsKkHkO+mlNxojWOz655HeCcO8YDQeQGVWJIK3hrkam0Nwzdm2h7F CeO9Ofqqu+8GKqVJFsqI+hYU5wSodyVIsE3pMkR8P4GrxsCnIPtByrMnkR8vRywS8OKA CqRw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.61.140 with SMTP id p12mr15845430igr.34.1417728659721; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:30:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <2047880662.4611734.1417714597653.JavaMail.root@sequans.com> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 08:30:59 +1100 Subject: Re: Style question: Importing modules from packages - 'from' vs 'as' From: Chris Angelico Cc: "python-list@python.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1417728663 news.xs4all.nl 2965 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:32977 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:81951 On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Wolfgang Maier wrote: > 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 ? Hmm, I'm not sure, but certainly it does seem to work that way. Typing "import foo" from inside a package will import foo.py from the package directory. I haven't dug into the details of _why_, and if ever the project shifts to Python 3 (which I would like it to), we might have to change some of the import lines, but I'd still like to be able to reference "foo.bar" as meaning the "bar" top-level object in foo.py. ChrisA