PEP 328, absolute/relative import

[Ben Finney]

Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> Ben Finney  <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> >So, under PEP 328 rules, the original poster's current-directory
> >module could only be imported (a) if the current directory was in
> >sys.path, or (b) if the code specified a relative import. The
> >accidental shadowing of the stdlib module could not happen.
> 
> Normally the current directory *is* on sys.path, and the first
> thing, too:

Ah. I'd forgotten that, my bad.

So, modules in the current directory will continue to be imported as
before, because they *are* absolute imports by PEP328 definitions.

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