On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 1:39 AM Florian Wetschoreck
<florian.wetschor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess, one potential solution would be to change the import resolution 
> order. But of course, this is a breaking change (at least in implicit 
> semantics - not sure if it will actually lead to too many real-world problems 
> - but probably there will be some) and might only be feasible in a safe way 
> in a new major version? (Or even in a minor version but with other flags or 
> imports from "the past" instead of "future" that restore the old behavior if 
> that is actually important for some users?)
>

Yes, that would be a breaking change. But here's a potential migration
path to consider: Make the script directory into an automatic package.
That way, when you specifically *want* to import a nearby file, you
can write a relative import:

# demo.py
print("Hello, world")

# example.py
from . import demo

I'm not sure what the consequences would be on sys.modules; maybe
they'd be keyed as, eg, __main__.demo ?

ChrisA
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