# Julia relative imports, issue #4600, exactly how "not that difficult" is it?

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**Created:** [February 12, 2020, 6:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-relative-imports-issue-4600-exactly-how-not-that-difficult-is-it/34503 "2020-02-12T06:24:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-relative-imports-issue-4600-exactly-how-not-that-difficult-is-it/34503/4 "2020-02-12T16:17:43Z")

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Note that a technique for importing submodules from relative paths is currently

```julia
include(“path/to/MyModule.jl”)
import .MyModule # note .

```

Syntactic sugar for this might be nice but is not essential.

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