[Python-Dev] Dropping init.py requirement for subpackages (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Apr 26 20:11:40 CEST 2006

At 02:07 PM 4/26/2006 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

def findmodule(self, fullname, path=None): # Note: we ignore 'path' argument since it is only used via metapath subname = fullname.split(".")[-1] if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(self.path, subname)): return self path = [self.path] try: file, filename, etc = imp.findmodule(subname, path) except ImportError: return None return ImpLoader(fullname, file, filename, etc)

Feh. The above won't properly handle the case where there is an init module. Trying again:

      def find_module(self, fullname, path=None):
          subname = fullname.split(".")[-1]
          path = [self.path]
          try:
              file, filename, etc = imp.find_module(subname, path)
          except ImportError:
              if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(self.path, subname)):
                  return self
              else:
                  return None
          return ImpLoader(fullname, file, filename, etc)

There, that should only fall back to init-less handling if there's no foo.py or foo/init.py present.

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