Ron Adam wrote: > > from __future__ import absolute_import > > Is there a way to check if this is working? I get the same results with > or without it. > > Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) > [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win 32
If there are two modules 'foo', one at the toplevel and the other inside a package 'bar', from __future__ import absolute_import import foo will import the toplevel module whereas import foo will import bar.foo. A messy demonstration: $ ls bar absolute.py foo.py __init__.py relative.py $ cat bar/absolute.py from __future__ import absolute_import import foo $ cat bar/relative.py import foo $ cat foo.py print "toplevel" $ cat bar/foo.py print "in bar" $ python2.5 -c 'import bar.absolute' toplevel $ python2.5 -c 'import bar.relative' in bar Another example is here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-January/422889.html Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
