From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 05:49:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Tweak verbiage and markup for relative/absolute import.  Backport candidate.
X-Git-Tag: v3.1a1~761
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f519523f4781357973cfa9a70e142a167feb88f8;p=python

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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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
index 734d3e92ad..a5f8f8f11a 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.0.rst
@@ -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.