Github user JoshRosen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1628#issuecomment-50691939
@mengxr Yeah, that would be okay to use but it turns out that it doesn't
solve the `lin_alg.py` problem.
`from __future__ import absolute_import` enables absolute imports, but
_only in the file that contains it_. In the failing `linalg.py` example, the
problematic `import random` occurred in third-party code. If _they_ added
`from __future__ import absolute_import`, things would work fine.
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