question about module resolution

[Peter Otten]

Emin wrote:

> I often find myself wanting to have a child module get some parameters
> defined in a parent module. For example, imagine  I have the following
> directory structure and want something in baz.py to look at a value in
> config.py. I end up putting in things like import sys;
> sys.path.append('../..'). Is there a better way?
> 
> foo/
>      __init__.py
>      config.py
>      bar/
>           __init__.py
>           baz.py

from __future__ import absolute_import
from .. import config

Peter