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 >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list