On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:38:50 -0700, rusi wrote: > On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 1:24:30 AM UTC+5:30, Tobiah wrote: >> > 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 >> >>> >> >>> > 1. My reading of > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/ is that this only works for > from statements not import statements. [See the section called Guido's > decision]
Correct. This would have to be written as: from . import format but note that this only work in a package, not from some arbitrary module inside a directory. > 2. The __future__ is not necessary in python 2.7 [Not necessary or not > allowed I not know :-) ] Not necessary. __future__ statements are guaranteed to "work" in all future versions, in the sense that once a __future__ feature is added, it will never be removed. So Python has had "nested scopes" since version 2.2 (by memory), but: from __future__ import nested_scopes still is allowed in Python 3.3, even though it has been a no-op since 2.2 or 2.3. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
