[Zope-CMF] Cleaning up imports, question about odd "feature"

[Tres Seaver]

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After spelunking through the maze of imports in the Zope2 core
indirected throught the Globals module, I resolved to rip out all such
imports (see a separate thread on zope-deve).  I also want to clean them
out of the CMF trunk, and so have been hunting through code which does
'from Globals import' and 'import Globals'.

I have found a couple of oddities:  both CMFCore.FSPropertiesObject and
CMFCore.FSSQLMethod use Globals.Development mode to decide whether or
not to give their class an '__of__' method.  I don't recall the
rationale, but it has been around *forever*, AFAICT.  I would like to
rip it out, and just make the '__of__' method there always, unless
somebody has a good argument for the current status.

I also plan to make all the currently relative imports absolute, since
relative imports break under later versions of Python, and I am making
some of them more precise:  e.g.:

  from AccessControl import ClassSecurityInfo

becomes:

  from AccessControl.SecurityInfo import ClassSecurityInfo

This is largely in aid of improving the dependency analysis of the parts
of the Zope2 core, but I think the practice is better, anyway.


Tres.
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