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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Should we allow relative includes?  (i.e. #include \"../_ssl.h\")","articleBody":"# Feature or enhancement\n\n### Proposal:\n\n              Can we avoid the relative include? They tend to produce problems further down the road.\n\n_Originally posted by @erlend-aasland in https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/120894#discussion_r1658402167_\n\nThere are few more examples:\n```\n$ git grep '#include .*\\.\\.\\/'\nInclude/internal/mimalloc/mimalloc/track.h:#include \"../src/prim/windows/etw.h\"\nModules/_blake2/blake2b_impl.c:#include \"../hashlib.h\"\nModules/_blake2/blake2s_impl.c:#include \"../hashlib.h\"\nModules/_ctypes/callproc.c:#include \"../_complex.h\"          // complex\nModules/_hacl/internal/Hacl_Hash_MD5.h:#include \"../Hacl_Hash_MD5.h\"\nModules/_hacl/internal/Hacl_Hash_SHA1.h:#include \"../Hacl_Hash_SHA1.h\"\nModules/_hacl/internal/Hacl_Hash_SHA2.h:#include \"../Hacl_Hash_SHA2.h\"\nModules/_hacl/internal/Hacl_Hash_SHA3.h:#include \"../Hacl_Hash_SHA3.h\"\nModules/_ssl/cert.c:#include \"../_ssl.h\"\nModules/_ssl/misc.c:#include \"../_ssl.h\"\nModules/_testinternalcapi/set.c:#include \"../_testcapi/util.h\"  // NULLABLE, RETURN_INT\nObjects/mimalloc/prim/osx/prim.c:#include \"../unix/prim.c\"\nParser/lexer/lexer.c:#include \"../tokenizer/helpers.h\"\nParser/tokenizer/file_tokenizer.c:#include \"../lexer/state.h\"\nParser/tokenizer/file_tokenizer.c:#include \"../lexer/lexer.h\"\nParser/tokenizer/file_tokenizer.c:#include \"../lexer/buffer.h\"\nParser/tokenizer/helpers.c:#include \"../lexer/state.h\"\nParser/tokenizer/helpers.h:#include \"../lexer/state.h\"\nParser/tokenizer/readline_tokenizer.c:#include \"../lexer/lexer.h\"\nParser/tokenizer/readline_tokenizer.c:#include \"../lexer/state.h\"\nParser/tokenizer/readline_tokenizer.c:#include \"../lexer/buffer.h\"\nParser/tokenizer/string_tokenizer.c:#include \"../lexer/state.h\"\nParser/tokenizer/utf8_tokenizer.c:#include \"../lexer/state.h\"\nPython/Python-tokenize.c:#include \"../Parser/lexer/state.h\"\nPython/Python-tokenize.c:#include \"../Parser/lexer/lexer.h\"\nPython/Python-tokenize.c:#include \"../Parser/tokenizer/tokenizer.h\"\nPython/Python-tokenize.c:#include \"../Parser/pegen.h\"      // _PyPegen_byte_offset_to_character_offset()\n```\n\n### Has this already been discussed elsewhere?\n\nThis is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere\n\n### Links to previous discussion of this feature:\n\n_No response_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/skirpichev","@type":"Person","name":"skirpichev"},"datePublished":"2024-07-01T12:15:18.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/121223/cpython/issues/121223"}