Guido said:
> There is the remaining issue of what exactly the syntax would be. I
> propose to extend the from clause to allow one or more dots before the
> dotted name, and to make the dotted name optional if at least one
> leading dot is found. I propose not to change from-less import.
What's the motivation for restricting it to from-imports? I suspect
that this will cause confusion, and it doesn't feel self-consistent to
me: why can you call a module ".foo" in one context, and not in
another? In particular, I think that if people see that you can do:
from .foo import *
Then they'll assume that they can also do:
import .foo
With the obvious semantics, i.e. equivalence to:
from . import foo
What do we gain by not extending the syntax to from-less imports?
-Edward
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