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Wed Apr 3 01:12:34 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-April/125061.html

Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote:
> However, relative imports can _only_ be performed using the "from X import Y syntax"

This seems like a legitimate complaint on its own, regardless
of the circular import issue. The principle of least surprise
suggests that relative imports should be possible using either
syntax.

I'm guessing the reason that 'import' doesn't support relative
imports is that it's not clear what name to bind the imported
module to.

There are a couple of ways that this could be resolved. One
would be to use the name resulting from stripping off the
leading dots, so that

    import .foo

would bind the module to the name 'foo'. Another would be
to always require an 'as' clause in this case, so that you
would have to write'

    import .foo as foo

-- 
Greg

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