flake8-absolute-import: A flake8 plugin to require absolute imports

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Don't like relative imports?

Lint 'em out!

flake8-absolute-import uses a direct check of the AST for each from x import y statement to flag relative imports. Specifically, it checks for a nonzero level attribute on each ImportFrom node.

Relative imports raise the ABS101 error code:

    from foo import bar   # OK
    from .foo import bar  # ABS101

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Available on PyPI (pip install flake8-absolute-import). flake8 should automatically detect and load the plugin. flake8>=5.0 is required.

Source on GitHub. Bug reports and feature requests are welcomed at the Issues page there.

Copyright (c) Brian Skinn 2019-2025

The flake8-absolute-import documentation (currently docstrings and README) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY). The flake8-absolute-import codebase is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for full license terms.