[Scons-dev] Python 3 issue

[RW]

Hi,
I've just submitted a pull request to allow for relative imports under
python 3 for tools.
There's also a test included as well.

https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/pull-requests/486/added-support-for-relative-imports-within/diff


On 26 June 2017 at 09:31, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 10:53 -0700, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > This change:
> > https://bitbucket.org/bdbaddog/scons-russel-example/commits/48899a710
> > f9afbec891307addd6ae5b9c08d53c9?at=master
> >
> > Will make it work in py2 and py3.
> >
> > Any reason we can't live with that?
>
> On reflection that probably seems like what I should have written in
> the first place!
>
> Python 3 uses absolute imports with the . and .. exceptions. The
> absolute_import __future__ makes Python 2 behave the same to give
> consistency. Of course this only works if the parent package is
> imported. In this context that will always be the case, so it should be
> fine.
>
> I can definitely live with this as an idiom.
>
> I am now just embarrassed to have found this problem. :-)
>
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