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Mon Mar 12 18:51:34 CET 2007 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/071902.html

what's the situation for Py3k? Should it always use absolute import there?

On 3/10/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Currently, all C code that needs to import a module uses
> PyImport_ImportModule which
> (1) calls __builtin__.__import__
> (2) attempts relative imports
>
> Most of the time, though, at least (2) is wrong.
> If we want to keep (1), PyImport_ImportModuleLevel can't be
> used as a replacement.
> So there should be a new API, called PyImport_ImportAbsolute
> that gets a flag whether relative import should be allowed.
>
> Georg
>
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