Nick Coghlan added the comment: That part of the PEP was never implemented - relative imports have never been allowed to cross package boundaries in practice (which is also why "from . import sys" doesn't work as an equivalent to "import sys" at the interactive prompt or in a top level module).
Rather than amending the PEP, my inclination is to drop that cross-reference from the documentation, and instead add a new subsection to https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html covering "Package relative imports" The key section that needs to be extracted is https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/#guido-s-decision (minus the part about cross-package relative imports being permitted). The following section about __name__ is also worth including but needs to be updated to account for __package__ (added by PEP 366), and __spec__ (added by PEP 451). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30840> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
