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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Apr 27 02:05:16 CEST 2006

At 04:57 PM 4/26/2006 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 4/26/06, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote: > Possibly. Perhaps it would be useful to have ispackage(dirname), > isrootpackage(dirname) and issubpackage(dirname) functions > somewhere (pkgutils?).

YAGNI. Also note that not all modules or packages are represented by pathnames -- they could live in zip files, or be accessed via whatever other magic an import handler users.

FYI, pkgutil in 2.5 has utilities to walk a package tree, starting from sys.path or a package path, and it's PEP 302 compliant. pydoc now uses this in place of directory inspection, so that documenting zipped packages works correctly.

These functions aren't documented yet, though, and probably won't be until next week at the earliest.

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