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Sun May 9 23:56:04 EDT 2004 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-May/044730.html

> I don't understand why absolute imports should be regarded
> as the "standard approach". Absolute imports are appropriate
> for some things, relative imports are appropriate for other
> things. You can't say that one is "standard" and the other
> isn't.

Maybe, but somewhere "underneath" all imports are converted to
absolute imports before they are carried out.  This is an important
normalization since every module ought to have exactly one true name,
and that must be its absolute name.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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[Python-Dev] PEP 328: import...as with relative import