RetroSearch Browse

Mon May 17 11:15:24 EDT 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-May/044863.html

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>>> I have a few questions about the PEP 328 which I'd like discussed:
>>>>
>>>> * Why do we absolutely need to change the current scheme
>>>>   of 'local, then absolute' for name resolution ?
>>>
>>> Because there's no way to override the current scheme without calling 
>>> __import__ directly.
>>
>>
>> Are you saying that you are not going to change the default __import__()
>> implementation, only the way it is called ? (I wonder how you'll
>> enforce the 'absolute only' strategy then)
> 
> Huh?  You lost me.  What 'absolute only'?  There's "from .x import y" 
> still, and that's relative.
> 
> As far as I know, nothing about __import__ is changing, only the 
> spelling of import statements.

If "import os" is supposed to map to an absolute import
you will have to change the semantics of __import__ because
simply passing "os" to that API is going to implement the
standard 'local, then absolute' import scheme.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

Professional Python Services directly from the Source  (#1, May 17 2004)
 >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ...        http://www.egenix.com/
 >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ...             http://zope.egenix.com/
 >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ...        http://python.egenix.com/
________________________________________________________________________
EuroPython 2004, Göteborg, Sweden                           20 days left

::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! ::::

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-May/044863.html below:

[Python-Dev] Relative vs. absolute imports