Dave Malcolm added the comment: On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 21:04 +0000, STINNER Victor wrote: > STINNER Victor added the comment: > > Oh, I didn't realize that the documentation says that the default value is -1. > http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#__import__ > > "level specifies whether to use absolute or relative imports. The default is > -1 which indicates both absolute and relative imports will be attempted. 0 > means only perform absolute imports. Positive values for level indicate the > number of parent directories to search relative to the directory of the > module calling __import__()." That's the python 2 documentation
The 3.3 docs here: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/functions.html#__import__ say "Changed in version 3.3: Negative values for level are no longer supported (which also changes the default value to 0)." > We should probably tolerate -1, or just drop the exception. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15610> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
