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the relative-import mechanism is broken... at least on python2.6 but i'd guess on later versions as well.
consider this package layout:
 /tmp/foo/
 /tmp/foo/__init__.py
 /tmp/foo/bar.py
where bar.py is:
 # note this is a relative import and should fail!
 from .os import walk
 print walk
 # and this should also fail
 from . import os
 print os
running it yields a bug:
$ PYTHONPATH="/tmp" python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:45:15) 
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import foo.bar
<function walk at 0xb7d2aa04> # <<<< ?!?!
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/tmp/foo/bar.py", line 4, in <module>
 from . import os
ImportError: cannot import name os
"from . import os" fails as expected, but "from .os import walk" works -- although it should obviously fail too.
-tomer