relative importing?

[Alireza Khorshidi]

I am not quite sure what we concluded about relative importing. However, I am seeing it very useful when the user works with different versions of the code and wants to switch from one to the other.

In a couple of places, relative imports are not used like here and here. There might be other places also. Should we use relative imports everywhere?

[andrew_peterson]

It should be everywhere except those two places. Those are executables, so they cannot do relative imports as they are not part of the python package.

[andrew_peterson]

(And I think I have gone through and taken care of the rest earlier; just re-open this issue if not.)