[issue10031] Withdraw anti-recommendation of relative imports from documentation

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 9d321235f1f9 by Georg Brandl in branch '2.7': Closes #10031: overhaul the "imports" section of the programming FAQ. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9d321235f1f9 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue10031] Withdraw anti-recommendation of relative imports from documentation

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 8c33440d1f64 by Georg Brandl in branch '3.4': Closes #10031: overhaul the "imports" section of the programming FAQ. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8c33440d1f64 -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved sta

[issue10031] Withdraw anti-recommendation of relative imports from documentation

Andy Maier added the comment: Hi, I would like to revive this issue, and have a few comments: 1. In Darren's original proposal, I suggest to say "implicit (old-style) relative imports" instead of "old-style relative imports", because that is the term used in the Python Tutorial (the descriptio

[issue10031] Withdraw anti-recommendation of relative imports from documentation

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report and suggestions. I agree to the gist of your changes, but I wouldn’t remove the explanation of implicit relative imports (the part starting with “If you’re writing code”). -- keywords: +patch nosy: +eric.araujo stage: -> patch rev

[issue10031] Withdraw anti-recommendation of relative imports from documentation

R. David Murray added the comment: Note that of the versions still getting doc updates, only 2.7 still supports the old style relative imports. -- nosy: +r.david.murray type: -> behavior versions: -Python 2.6, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker

[issue10031] Withdraw anti-recommendation of relative imports from documentation

New submission from Darren Dale : Old-style relative imports have been strongly discouraged in some sections of the python documentation. This was discussed on the python-dev mailing list. Executive summary: "The issue is implementing a PEP with nice support for relative imports, and then docu