__future__.py and its documentation claim absolute imports became mandatory in 2.7, but they didn't

[smarnach]

BPO	14494
Nosy	@ericsnowcurrently, @akheron, @smarnach
Files	absolute_import.patch

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title = "__future__.py and its documentation claim absolute imports became mandatory in 2.7, but they didn't"
updated_at = <Date 2012-05-19.15:47:50.766>
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[smarnach]

As has been pointed out before on python-dev 1, the mandatory version of '__future__.absolute_import' does not match reality. In Python 2.7, absolute imports are not the default.

The attached patch should fix the documentation and Lib/future.py. I set the mandatory version to (3, 0, 0, "alpha", 0), in accordance with other features that became mandatory in Py3k, though there never was a 3.0a0 release. I double-checked that absolute imports already were the default in 3.0a1.

The patch should probably be applied to all branches.

[python-dev]

New changeset cc9e5ddd8220 by Petri Lehtinen in branch '2.7':
bpo-14494: Document that absolute imports became default in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cc9e5ddd8220

New changeset 7cdc1392173f by Petri Lehtinen in branch '3.2':
bpo-14494: Document that absolute imports became default in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7cdc1392173f

New changeset 26661d9bbb36 by Petri Lehtinen in branch 'default':
bpo-14494: Document that absolute imports became default in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/26661d9bbb36

[akheron]

Fixed, thanks for the patch.

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