On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote: > Rob Gaddi wrote: > >> Does anyone know the history of why relative imports are only available >> for packages and not for "programs"? It certainly complicates life. >> > > Really, no one? It seems like a fairly obvious thing to have included; > all of the reasons that you want to be explicit in saying: > > from . import mypkg > > in a package apply just as well in an executable script. But instead, > they've got different semantics such that you expressly _cannot_ use > relative imports in a script. This feels like such a glaring oversight > that there must have been some rationale behind it.
You can use the simple "import mypkg" syntax to load these up. I'm not sure what you're looking for - do you want to prevent that syntax from working, to prevent accidental shadowing? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
