> On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 11:03, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > I'd much rather invent new syntax to spell *local* imports. I like > > > > from .module import something > > > > You can even generalize and write > > > > from ..module import something > > > > to reference your package's parent package. :-) > > Actually, if truth be told, I'd love to just ban local imports. I > understand that might be controversial though <wink>. Works for me. :-) > The next best thing would be to force local imports to use special > syntax (I was going to say "ugly" :) like what you suggest above, but > I'm afraid that that might be more disruptive, requiring future imports > and such. I think having a syntax for spelling global imports can be > done in a backwards compatible way for 2.4. Well, but since you want all imports to be global, it'd be insane to introduce *new* syntax for global imports, wouldn't it? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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