[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 328 -- relative and multi-line import

[Guido van Rossum]

> What is the rationale given for not allowing:
> 
> import .moduleY

For all other forms of import, after

  import XXX.YYY.ZZZ

then

  XXX.YYY.ZZZ

is usable in an expression.  (Very different from Java!)  But

  .moduleY

is not usable in an expression.

(This might be worth adding to the PEP.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)