In article <mailman.23.1301538403.2990.python-l...@python.org>, Michael Parker <michael.g.par...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I'm reading Learning Python 4th Edition by Lutz. In the section on >relative package imports, he says: "In Python 3.0, the `import >modname` statement is always absolute, skipping the containing >package=92s directory. In 2.6, this statement form still performs >relative imports today (i.e., the package=92s directory is searched >first), but these will become absolute in Python 2.7, too.` > >But in my own testing I'm not seeing this behavior. Was it not >included in 2.7 for fear of breaking too many programs?
from __future__ import absolute_import -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "At Resolver we've found it useful to short-circuit any doubt and just refer to comments in code as 'lies'. :-)" --Michael Foord paraphrases Christian Muirhead on python-dev, 2009-03-22 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
