On 9/21/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giovanni Bajo wrote: > > > My idea (and interpretation of Greg's statement) is that a module/package > > should be able to live with either relative imports within itself, or fully > > absolute imports. > > I think it goes further than that -- each module should > (potentially) have its own unique view of the module > namespace, defined at the time the module is installed, > that can't be disturbed by anything that any other module > does.
Well, maybe. But there's also the requirement that if packages A and B both import C, they should get the same C. Having multiple versions of the same package loaded simultaneously sounds like a recipe for disaster. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
