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

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Thu Apr 27 00:35:20 CEST 2006


Joe Smith wrote:

It seems to me that the right way to fix this is to simply make a small change to the error message. On a failed import, have the code check if there is a directory that would have been the requested package if it had contained an init module. If there is then append a message like "You might be missing an init.py file".

+1. It's not that putting an init.py file in is hard, it's that people have a hard time realizing when they've forgotten to do it.

-- Ian Bicking / ianb at colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org



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