[Python-Dev] Draft: PEP for imports (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Jan 30 20:39:08 EST 2004

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 20:25, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

At 08:15 PM 1/30/04 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>Other than relative imports, the only other thing I occasionally miss in >Python's import semantics is the fact that more than one file system >space can't be mapped into one package namespace without trickery. E.g. >if in "import my.package.sub1" and "import my.package.sub2", the >directories sub1 and sub2 didn't have to live under a directory called >my/package. Didn't Guido write a 'pkgutil' module for this? Or am I confusing what he wrote with what you want? :)

He did! I totally spaced on that. Okay, Python packages are more close to perfect than I thought. :)

Maybe, though, it's time to get rid of this warning from http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-pkgutil.html

    Warning: This is an experimental module. It may be withdrawn or
    completely changed up to an including the release of Python 2.3
    beta 1.

:)

-Barry

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