I occasionally want to do something like this: import .. as parent
or: import . as self The pattern is a little less useful for namespace packages (which I've been trying to use almost exclusively, along with relative imports) than it is for __init__.py based packages, but there is still some utility. Is there a reason one can't import dots directly and bind them to a name? I did not find any text around this and the closest I've come up with is: from .. import __name__ as parent_module_name parent = __import__(parent_module_name) Could we support relative imports without `from` so long as there is an `as`? Thanks, -- C Anthony
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