> Nick's right; 0 fails on an import * to pull anything in of interest. And as > I said on python-checkins -- you can ignore that email, Alexander -- there > is a historical reason because in Python 2 if you tried an implicit relative > import a value of None met to do an absolute import. This doesn't have that > effect in py3k as explicit relative imports are the only way to do relative > imports (and luckily importlib does the proper thing for this as well =).
Ah, thank you - I knew we had a reason for doing it that way, I just couldn't remember what it was :) @Alexander: yes, it should be changed to None for 2.7, 3.1 and 3.2, since none of those allow implicit relative imports. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com