[Python-Dev] relative import circular problem

[Eric Snow]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is really a quality-of-implementation issue in the import system rather
> than a core language design problem. It's just that those of us with the
> knowledge and ability to fix it aren't inclined to do so because circular
> imports usually (although not quite always) indicate a need to factor some
> common code out into a third support module imported by both of the original
> modules. At that point, the code is cleaner and more decoupled, and the
> uneven circular import support ceases to be a problem for that application.

+1

-eric