PEP 328, absolute/relative import

[Peter Hansen]

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

Correct.  We'll still be seeing newbies (and the odd experienced 
Pythonista) mistakenly shadowing standard library modules with 
name-colliding local ones well after PEP 328 is fully implemented. 
Gotta keep people on their feet!  :-)

-Peter