> If they were actively discouraged, perhaps performing a relative > import would raise a warning, This would be done if this import style was deprecated. It’s different from it being discouraged.
> or maybe distutils would raise a warning at install time, Distutils does not inspect source files. > Up until now, I was not aware that use of PEP 328 relative imports > might be discouraged. I'm still unclear as to why they might be > discouraged. I think relative imports are a nice thing. I think they’ve been added because there are people who want them, and the previous implicit relative imports caused so much pain. Neither the FAQ you quote nor PEP 8 really explain what’s bad about explicit relative imports. Regards _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
