With the permission of Rocky, I am forwarding his reply here verbatim: I am in Crackow right now and my Internet setup is not quite ideal. Below is why pyimport relative is used. I will reply in full when I get back in about a week. But here are the salient points Python's import relative does not handle the development style I use. This style is that I can run the entire program or submodules of the program without installing any of them. Or run as an installed egg. By using import relative I don't even have to declare which parts form submodules. I think Python's import relative can handle this part. But it is with the following additional caveat that Python's import relative falls down. See [1] http://groups.google.pl/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a5c08a6456d1bcd2/43f7f1dffb4b5495?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=import+relative+rocky#43f7f1dffb4b5495 Each "module" file has some standalone code that demos the code and can be used for understanding. I use it as a quick way to test changes. I generally put code here this in advance of a unit test which is a more heavyweight kind of thing. This style for example is described, lauded as a wonderful feature of Python and used in Mark Pilgrim's "Dive into Python". Of course it is possible to rewrite code to use Python's import relative, but I would loose this development style. So it is not out of ignorance of Python's import relative that I did this but because of deficiency. So it is my belief that the pyimport-relative package adds value which is why it is a separate package. Others may find benefit in this kind of style. If enough people find benefit, it may foster future improvements in Python's import relative.
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> mh, probably I'm missing something:
> - is pyimport-relative only available for 2.4?
> - is pyimport-relative an incompatible implementation of relative
> imports as present in python >=2.5 ?
> - would it be possible to "port" to relative import as in python >=
> 2.5 and declare pydbgr as only available for >= 2.5 (Lenny has 2.5 as
> default...)?
> IMHO, either use the relimp as in python >= 2.5 or don't use at all
> (as Piotr just suggested).
> Regards,
> Sandro
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