On Mon, Mar 7, 2016, at 11:19, Ian Kelly wrote: > Relative imports only work inside packages. You can't use a relative > import to import one top-level module from another. > > Besides, the relative import doesn't help to disambiguate in this > case. The absolute path of the stdlib email module is "email". The > absolute path of the module in your CWD is also "email". Why should a > relative import prefer one over the other? So I would think that even > if it worked, it would still just end up importing the first one it > finds on your sys.path.
Maybe what we need is a system smarter than sys.path - a clear "import from stdlib" statement, and a way to designate what directories *contain stdlib modules*, would be useful. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
