Fix Python – What does a . in an import statement in Python mean?

Question

I’m looking over the code for Python’s multiprocessing module, and it contains this line:

from ._multiprocessing import win32, Connection, PipeConnection

instead of

from _multiprocessing import win32, Connection, PipeConnection

the subtle difference being the period before _multiprocessing. What does that mean? Why the period?

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That’s the syntax for explicit relative imports. It means import from the current package.

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