[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r43033 - in python/trunk/Lib: distutils/sysconfig.py encodings/__init__.py

[Guido van Rossum]

Done.

Index: pep-0008.txt
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--- pep-0008.txt        (revision 42952)
+++ pep-0008.txt        (working copy)
@@ -156,8 +156,9 @@

     - Relative imports for intra-package imports are highly discouraged.
       Always use the absolute package path for all imports.
-      (However, once PEP 328 [7] is fully implemented, its style of
-      explicit relative imports will be recommended.)
+      Even now that PEP 328 [7] is fully implemented in Python 2.5,
+      its style of explicit relative imports is actively discouraged;
+      absolute imports are more portable and usually more readable.

     - When importing a class from a class-containing module, it's usually okay
       to spell this

On 3/15/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 17:33 -0500, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> > On 3/15/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > > Well, absolute imports without the future statement will not use the
> > > 5th argument, so they won't break, right? That's what MAL also says.
> > > Someone please fix this.
> >
> > I'd much rather see us change imports to use absolute imports than to
> > use relative imports in count-the-dots fashion.  Could we add that to
> > PEP 8?
>
> +1
> -Barry
>
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