On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> I really don't want people to start using the "from . import foo" idiom > for their first steps into programming. It seems a reasonable "defensive > programming" maneuver to put in scripts and apps made by professional > Python programmers for surprise-free wide distribution, but (like many of > those) should not be part of the learning experience. At the same time, someday you may want the support for 2.7-kind-of issues to stop. Requiring "from" (or other ways to make the source of the import unambiguous) is common in programming languages. Cheers, -- Juancarlo *Añez*
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