Chris Colbert wrote: > It seems the relative import level is dependent on the location of the > main entry module. I thought the whole idea of relative imports was to > make the import independent of the entry point?
You don't have to specify it explicitly, so you can move a module containing from .foo import bar into another package without changing its source code (provided there is a foo submodule with a bar attribute). This includes the trivial case of renaming the parent package. Of course Python has to know the importing module's location, just like you cannot meet me one block north and three blocks west unless you know where I currently am. See also http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/#rationale-for-relative-imports Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
