Issue2070

import .configuration import *

does not work with the error

SyntaxError: ("'import *' not allowed with 'from .'", ('__pyclasspath__/IPython/config/__init__.py', 16, 0, ''))

As you can see such code is used in IPython and is supported both by Python 2.7 and Python 3.3. Is there any good reason why Jython 2.7 beta does not support it?

relative imports are basic Python 2.7 and therefor, in my opinion, must be supported in jython as well.
Also this prevents from using ipython with jython

No other Python implementation does this. My understanding is that this restriction was proposed at some point, but ultimately lifted.

Guido Van Rossum, in March 2008, asked about why it got there in the first place, and if he would have considered lifting it, said:
"I don't recall the reason; it may simply be due to the complexity, or
possibly it would have made the _import__ API even uglier.
I'm fine with removing the restriction[...]."

(from the python-3000 mailing list - https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-March/012565.html)

Apparently this is a duplicate of bug #1973

The bug is the same, even though the descriptions are different (and in my opinion this one is more accurate and easier to find). Anyway, thanks for pointing this out and providing a patch. It would be great if this bug could be marked as a duplicate and your patch accepted, but I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon..

Duplicate of #1973