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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-08-09 14:26:58 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 56782-56847 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/p3yk ................ r56808 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-08-07 14:15:45 -0700 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Replace sys.exitfunc call with atexit call ................ r56835 | thomas.wouters | 2007-08-08 09:20:30 -0700 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007) | 8 lines Tests for dict comprehensions I forgot to 'svn add' when committing the actual feature. I was _sure_ I had checked in these new tests already, but I guess the checkin failed and I didn't notice. ................ r56847 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-08-09 07:03:34 -0700 (Thu, 09 Aug 2007) | 30 lines Merged revisions 56760-56846 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r56762 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-06 00:37:58 -0700 (Mon, 06 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Place #ifdef Py_USING_UNICODE around decode_unicode(). ........ r56763 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-06 00:39:09 -0700 (Mon, 06 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Replace unnecessary function call. ........ r56764 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-06 00:52:20 -0700 (Mon, 06 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Patch #1765839: add link to https+proxy urllib2 opener. ........ r56797 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-07 00:13:24 -0700 (Tue, 07 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Bug #1769002: fix a now-wrong sentence in the tutorial. ........ r56830 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-08 06:03:41 -0700 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007) | 3 lines Revert the fix for #1548891, it broke backwards compatibility with arbitrary read buffers. Fixes #1730114. ........ r56833 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-08 06:50:02 -0700 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix compilation warning. ........ ................
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@@ -2942,15 +2942,14 @@ which the current module is a submodule), the \keyword{import}
statement looks for a top-level module with the given name.
When packages are structured into subpackages (as with the
-\module{sound} package in the example), there's no shortcut to refer
-to submodules of sibling packages - the full name of the subpackage
-must be used. For example, if the module
-\module{sound.filters.vocoder} needs to use the \module{echo} module
-in the \module{sound.effects} package, it can use \code{from
-sound.effects import echo}.
+\module{sound} package in the example), you can use absolute
+imports to refer to submodules of siblings packages.
+For example, if the module \module{sound.filters.vocoder} needs to
+use the \module{echo} module in the \module{sound.effects} package,
+it can use \code{from sound.effects import echo}.
Starting with Python 2.5, in addition to the implicit relative imports
-described above, you can write explicit relative imports with the
+described above, you can also write explicit relative imports with the
\code{from module import name} form of import statement. These explicit
relative imports use leading dots to indicate the current and parent
packages involved in the relative import. From the \module{surround}