Cyclic relative imports don't work
Torsten Bronger
bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de
Thu Apr 10 12:49:50 EDT 2008
Hallöchen!
Assume the follwing package structure:
main.py
package/
__init__.py [empty]
moduleX.py
moduleY.py
main.py says:
from package import moduleX
moduleX.py says:
from . import moduleY
and moduleY.py says:
from . import moduleX
However, this doesn't work:
bronger at wilson:~/temp/packages-test$ python main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 1, in <module>
from package import moduleX
File "/home/bronger/temp/packages-test/package/moduleX.py", line 1, in <module>
from . import moduleY
File "/home/bronger/temp/packages-test/package/moduleY.py", line 1, in <module>
from . import moduleX
ImportError: cannot import name moduleX
If I turn the relative imports to absolute ones, it works. But I'd
prefer the relative notation for intra-package imports. Why is this
restriction?
Tschö,
Torsten.
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