George Sakkis <george.sak...@gmail.com> added the comment: More fun findings: dots are special-cased too, but only if they don't appear consecutively (!);
~$ cat pkg/__init__.py print __name__ ~$ python -c "__import__('pkg', fromlist=['.'])" pkg pkg.. ~$ python -c "__import__('pkg', fromlist=['..'])" pkg ~$ python -c "__import__('pkg', fromlist=['...'])" pkg ~$ python -c "__import__('pkg', fromlist=['././//.'])" pkg pkg.././//. ~$ python -c "__import__('pkg', fromlist=['././../'])" pkg ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2090> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com