Relative Imports

Question

I\'m reading Two Scoops Django Best Practices to make my coding style improve. I\'m in relative imports and here is the sample code to make it reusable.

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Answer 1

I usually use imports like this only for one reason

from .foo import bar
from .other import sample

The reason being If Tomorrow, my module name changes from say 'test' to 'mytest' then the code does not require a refactoring. The code works without breaking.

Update

All imports starting with a '.' dot, only works within that package. Cross package imports need require the whole path.