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 _______________________________________________ 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
