Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 11/1/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>At 10:22 AM 11/1/2005 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >>>* PEP 328 - absolute/relative import >> >>I assume that references to 2.4 in that PEP should be changed to 2.5, and >>so on. > > > For the part that hasn't been implemented yet, yes. > > >>It also appears to me that the PEP doesn't record the issue brought up by >>some people about the current absolute/relative ambiguity being useful for >>packaging purposes. i.e., being able to nest third-party packages such >>that they end up seeing their dependencies, even though they're not >>installed at the "root" package level. >> >>For example, I have a package that needs Python 2.4's version of pyexpat, >>and I need it to run in 2.3, but I can't really overwrite the 2.3 pyexpat, >>so I just build a backported pyexpat and drop it in the package, so that >>the code importing it just ends up with the right thing. >> >>Of course, that specific example is okay since 2.3 isn't going to somehow >>grow absolute importing. :) But I think people brought up other examples >>besides that, it's just the one that I personally know I've done. > > > I guess this ought to be recorded. :-( > > The issue has been beaten to death and my position remains firm: > rather than playing namespace games, consistent renaming is the right > thing to do here. This becomes a trivial source edit, which beats the > problems of debugging things when it doesn't work out as expected > (which is very common due to the endless subtleties of loading > multiple versions of the same code).
Just for reference, may I remind you of this thread last year: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/048695.html The PEP's timeline should be updated accordingly. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 01 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
