On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > It says they are "highly discouraged" because "absolute imports are > more portable and usually more readable", but now that people have had > a chance to use explicit relative imports, do people still believe > this? I mean if we truly believed this then why did we add the syntax? > I know I have used it and love it, let alone that I don't buy the > portability argument.
I suspect the portability argument is about cross-Python-version compatibility, rather than across operating systems. Maybe we don't care about that any more since 2.4 and earlier don't exist in the eyes of python-dev. On the other hand, I've never used them, or stumbled over code that does, so I won't speak to the readability issue. I have an opinion, but no practical experience with explicit relative imports. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
