What is bad with "Relative imports"

[Alexander Eisenhuth]

Hi,

PyLint says that "Relative imports" ... are worth to be warned .

And I ask myself why?

----------------- Example directory structure ---------
Sound/ Top-level package
__init__.py Initialize the sound package
Utils/ Subpackage
__init__.py
iobuffer.py
errors.py
misc.py
...
Formats/

Let's say in misc.py exist the class Player(). What could be bad to expose it in
Utils.__init__() like:

------------------ __init__.py -------------------------
import misc # provoke PyLint warning
Player = misc.Player
....
--------------------------------------------------------

with
Sound.Utils.Player() ??

Thaks for your experience and comments

Regards
Alexander

 

[Aahz]

PyLint says that "Relative imports" ... are worth to be warned .

And I ask myself why?

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328