"Alex Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Very simply, PEP 328 explains: > """ > Relative Imports and __name__ > > Relative imports use a module's __name__ attribute to determine that > module's position in the package hierarchy. If the module's name does > not contain any package information (e.g. it is set to '__main__') then > relative imports are resolved as if the module were a top level module, > regardless of where the module is actually located on the file system. > """
To change my question somewhat, can you give me an example where this behavior (when __name__ is '__main__') would be useful for a script? (I.e., more useful than importing relative to the directory holding the script, as indicated by __file__.) Thanks, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
