[Python-Dev] Re: Relative import
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Wed Dec 17 11:14:03 EST 2003
>> Is funny punctuation really the right way to spell an important
>> distinction like this?
Tim> That's what I've been wondering. I really don't like the proposal
Tim> to use . in various places to signify relative and absolute
Tim> imports. It seems non-obvious both in understandability and
Tim> readability.
Agreed. Let's shoot for something more Pythonic. I can imagine having to
count periods in import statements in much the way I used to have to count
closing parens in Lisp code on a CDC Cyber (way before I had ever heard of
language-sensitive editing).
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