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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Apr 27 04:39:34 CEST 2006

On 4/26/06, Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> wrote:

On Thursday 27 April 2006 06:49, Guido van Rossum wrote: > OK, forget it. I'll face the pitchforks. > > I'm disappointed though -- it sounds like we can never change > anything about Python any more because it will upset the oldtimers.

I'm not averse to changing this - just not to changing it on short notice for 2.5 and causing me pain from having to cut new releases to fix some breakage in the stdlib caused by this

I wasn't proposing it for 2.5 (for this very reason) -- AFAICT most responses were again st this for 2.6 or 2.7.

Hopefully you're okay with Thomas's patch going into 2.5a3 -- it warns about directories without init.py that otherwise match the requested name.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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