from .foo import * should work

[nnorwitz]

BPO	2400
Nosy	@loewis, @jaraco, @benjaminp

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[nnorwitz]

Explicit relative imports using from .foo import * should work.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-March/012564.html

[benjaminp]

More verbosely:
The restriction should be removed; a SyntaxError shouldn't be raised,
and import should handle it correctly.

[loewis]

This is now fixed in r61595.

[jaraco]

Is there any chance this can be back-ported to Python 2.7?