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Thu Jul 5 19:17:51 CEST 2007 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-July/073761.html

On 7/5/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 11:53 AM 7/5/2007 +0200, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >I see no big problems with this, except I wonder if in the end it
> >wouldn't be better to *always* define __package_name__ instead of only
> >when it's in main? And then perhaps rename it to __package__? Done
> >properly it could always be used for relative imports, rather than
> >parsing __module__ to find the package. Then you won't even need the
> >error handler.
>
> +1 for __package__, and putting it everywhere.  Relative import
> should use it first if present, falling back to use of __name__.

+1 from me as well.

-Brett

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[Python-Dev] PEP 366 - Relative imports from main modules