On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 1:24:30 AM UTC+5:30, Tobiah wrote: > > Are you familiar with absolute and relative imports: > > http://docs.python.org/release/2.5/whatsnew/pep-328.html > > Doesn't seem to work: > Python 2.7.3 (default, May 10 2012, 13:31:18) > [GCC 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> from __future__ import absolute_import > >>> import .format > File "<stdin>", line 1 > import .format > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > >>>
1. My reading of http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/ is that this only works for from statements not import statements. [See the section called Guido's decision] 2. The __future__ is not necessary in python 2.7 [Not necessary or not allowed I not know :-) ] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list