I have a package which includes a module which shadows a module in the standard library. For example:
package +-- __init__.py +-- ham.py +-- spam.py +-- sys.py Inside that package, I want to import the standard library sys. In other words, I want an absolute import. In Python 2.7, absolute imports will be the default, and "import sys" will import the standard library module. To get to the package.sys module, I'll need "from . import sys". In Python 2.5 and 2.6, relative imports are the default, and package.sys will shadow the std lib version. I can say: from __future__ import absolute_import to use the Python 2.7 behaviour. What can I do in Python 2.4 to get an absolute import? I've read PEP 328 and googled, but haven't found any useful advice other than "well don't do that then". Plenty of pages complaining about relative imports, but I haven't found any work-arounds others than renaming the offending module. Are there any other ways around this? http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/ -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
