how to absolute import?

[Qiangning Hong]

From Guido's PEP8:

- Relative imports for intra-package imports are highly
discouraged. Always use the absolute package path for all
imports.

Does it mean I should put my develop directory into PYTHONPATH (e.g.
/home/hongqn/devel/python) and use "import myproj1.package1.module1 as
module1" all the way? Or should I make a "./setup.py install" for
every package whenever I made a change?

I'm using python 2.3 so from .foo import bar doesn't work for me.

 

[Steven Bethard]

- Relative imports for intra-package imports are highly
discouraged. Always use the absolute package path for all
imports.

Does it mean I should put my develop directory into PYTHONPATH (e.g.
/home/hongqn/devel/python) and use "import myproj1.package1.module1 as
module1" all the way? Or should I make a "./setup.py install" for
every package whenever I made a change?

Yes. =) Either one of those is a reasonable solution. I tend to put
local modules that I don't expect to distribute (but that I use
frequently) on my PYTHONPATH, but actually building them as a package is
certainly a reasonable solution too.

I'm using python 2.3 so from .foo import bar doesn't work for me.

This doesn't work in 2.4 either.

STeVe