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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2008-12-05 05:49:12 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2008-12-05 05:49:12 (GMT)
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Tweak verbiage and markup for relative/absolute import. Backport candidate.
(I guess *all* changes to this file should be backported to the 3.0 branch.)
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@@ -457,10 +457,9 @@ Removed Syntax
* The :keyword:`from` *module* :keyword:`import` ``*`` syntax is only
allowed at the module level, no longer inside functions.
-* The only acceptable syntaxes for relative imports are :keyword:`from`
- ``.`` :keyword:`import` *name* or
- :keyword:`from` ``.module`` :keyword:`import` *name*.
- :keyword:`import` forms not starting with ``.`` are always
+* The only acceptable syntax for relative imports is :keyword:`from`
+ ``.`` [*module*] :keyword:`import` *name*.
+ All :keyword:`import` forms not starting with ``.`` are
interpreted as absolute imports. (:pep:`0328`)
* Classic classes are gone.