[Python-ideas] 'from os.path import FILE, DIR' or internal structure of filenames

[Nick Coghlan]

Note that any remaining occurrences of non-absolute values in __file__ are
generally considered bugs in the import system. However, we tend not to fix
them in maintenance releases, since converting relative paths to absolute
paths runs a risk of breaking user code.

We're definitely *not* going to further pollute the module namespace with
values that can be trivially and reliably derived from existing values.

Cheers,
Nick.
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