http://docs.python.org/2/whatsnew/2.5.html says:
"Once absolute imports are the default, import string will always find the standard library¹s version." Experimentally, it appears that modules in site-packages are also found by absolute imports. I wouldn't consider site-packages to be part of the "standard library". Can somebody give me a more precise description of what absolute import does? It also says, "This absolute-import behaviour will become the default in a future version (probably Python 2.7)", but it appears that 2.7.6 is still doing relative by default.
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