Fabio Zadrozny wrote: > I've been playing with the new features and there's one thing about > the new relative import that I find a little strange and I'm not sure > this was intended... > > When you do a from . import xxx, it will always fail if you're in a > top-level module, and when executing any module, the directory of the > module will automatically go into the pythonpath, thus making all the > relative imports in that structure fail.
Correct. Relative imports are based on __name__ and don't work properly if __name__ does not properly reflect the module's position in the package hierarchy (usually because the module is the main module, so name is set to '__main__'). This is noted briefly in PEP 328 [1], with the current workarounds explained in more detail in PEP 338 [2]. Cheers, Nick. [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/#relative-imports-and-name [2] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0338/#import-statements-and-the-main-module -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org _______________________________________________ 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
