[Python-Dev] PEP 366 - Relative imports from main modules

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:53 AM 7/5/2007 +0200, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>I see no big problems with this, except I wonder if in the end it
>wouldn't be better to *always* define __package_name__ instead of only
>when it's in main? And then perhaps rename it to __package__? Done
>properly it could always be used for relative imports, rather than
>parsing __module__ to find the package. Then you won't even need the
>error handler.

+1 for __package__, and putting it everywhere.  Relative import 
should use it first if present, falling back to use of __name__.