On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Stefan Behnel<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Ondrej Certik<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> As far as Cython is concerned, the only problem I can see is that it
>>> changes all import paths to the fully qualified import paths. Python
>>> allows both ways, Cython only the fully qualified way. As Stefan
>>> explained, this is needed, because it will then not work properly at
>>> the moment. But I am not convinced this cannot be fixed -- though it
>>> may happen that the fix is too tedious and not worthy.
>>>
>>
>> IMHO, the only "fix" Cython needs is support for relative imports...
>> Then you could write:
>>
>> from ._hermes2d cimport what_you_need
>>
>> This way, Ondrej would be able to easily write Cython code using
>> relative imports the right way...
>
> I thought about this, too, and yes, that would be a nice feature. But it
> doesn't help in this case. What Ondrej wanted was to be able to import the
> module both from its package and as a plain import, i.e. when put outside
> of any package. The above would not handle the latter case either.

I think it would. I have _forms.so and _hermes2d.so. The _hermes2d.so
is imported from _forms.so and if the import was relative, e.g. if
_forms.so was doing "import ._hermes2d", then it should work both in
the tree and out of the tree.

Ondrej

Ondrej
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