Nick Coghlan added the comment:
A key enabler for actually pursuing this idea would be coming up with a
feasible way of emitting a deprecation warning for code that relied on the old
implicit relative imports. A reasonable fast check for that would be to:
1. Start populating a private sys._mai
New submission from Nick Coghlan:
In just the last 24 hours, I've run across two cases where the default "the
script directory is on sys.path" behaviour confused even experienced
programmers:
1. a GitHub engineer thought the Python version in their Git-for-Windows bundle
was broken because "f