On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 10/5/2010 2:21 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Darren Dale<dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> The issue is implementing a PEP with nice support for relative >>> imports, and then documenting that it should never be used. >> >> Isn't this mostly historical? Until the new relative-import syntax was >> implemented there were various problems with relative imports. The >> short-term solution was to recommend not using them. The long-term >> solution was to implement an unambiguous syntax. Now it is time to >> withdraw the anti-recommendation. Of course, without going overboard >> -- I still find them an acquired taste; but they have their place. > > Darren, if you have not yet done so, open a tracker that quotes the above > and gives your recommended changes at which locations.
Done: http://bugs.python.org/issue10031 Darren _______________________________________________ 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
