What is the difference between local imports and package imports?

Question

I'm currently going over a medium-sized code base. In some cases, other modules are imported with a relative path:

from .api.auth import jwt_load_user

and sometimes absolutely

from app.api.auth import jwt_load_user

Is there any difference? Is it just personal taste which style to choose?

There is some good answers to Absolute vs relative [here](https://stackoverflow.com/q/4209641/7942856). Pep-8 also touches on this, suggesting absolute imports are recommended. — PacketLoss, Sep 10 '20 at 07:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 10 '20 at 07:29

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To the best of my knowledge, it's just a matter of personal taste and codebase style (unless there's some forbidden, evil sys.path/loader meta magic in use).

answered Sep 10 '20 at 07:29

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