On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Brett Cannon 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 agree with others that explicit relative imports should still be discouraged. I've run into problems with them where imports break under some situations. I don't remember the details, but I think it was when running unittests or under -m or something. Yeah, I should file a bug next time I run into it. -Barry
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