[whalesalad]

Very good points, especially the bit about a conflict with a library which many of us here have likely experienced.

What would you do instead?

[jbergknoff]

I think anything that treats paths on disks/library names as string literals would be workable. So, for instance, the stuff from the importlib standard library would probably be good enough if it was a top level/global construct that worked with quoted strings.

> from './app/utils.py' import numbers