On Apr 21, 2010, at 02:56 PM, Mark Dickinson wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
>> While talking about Python 2.6 -> 2.7 transitions, the subject of relative 
>> and
>> absolute imports has come up.  PEP 328 states that absolute imports will be
>> enabled by default in Python 2.7, however I cannot verify that this has
>> actually happened.
>
>I'm fairly sure it hasn't.  I brought this up on python-dev in
>February (around Feb 2nd;  thread entitled 'Absolute imports in Python
>2.x'), but for some reason I can only find the tail end of that thread
>on mail.python.org:
>
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-February/097458.html
>
>> Python 2.7?  If not, given that we're into beta, I don't think we can do it
>> now, so I would suggest updating the PEP.
>
>Agreed.  There's also the question of whether deprecation warnings or
>-3 warnings should be raised;  see
>
>http://bugs.python.org/issue7844

For the time being, I've removed the sentence from the PEP that says absolute
imports will be enabled by default in Python 2.7.

-Barry

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