On Friday, November 21, 2014 5:59:44 PM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Rick Johnson > <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1. Use the historical "implicit import" mechanism for most day > > to day imports, and let Python do all the heavy lifting. > > > > 2. Use the new "explicit import" mechanism for advanced name > > resolutions, but realize that since you are now taking > > control of import, so you must do more work, and you must be > > "exhaustively explicit" about *where* Python searches. > > In other words, what you want is: > > # today's method, import based on search path > import sys > # new explicit path method > import '/usr/local/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload/math.cpython-35m.so' > > [...] > > There are a VERY VERY few cases where you really do want > to import a module from a specific file path. For those > situations, there are already techniques you can use. Why > change the behaviour of import itself?
Chris, either take the time to read and understand my posts *FULLY*, or don't bother to reply. I have in no way suggested that we import via "filepaths". Stop lying. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
