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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 27 12:43:51 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

So I have a very simple proposal: keep the init.py requirement for top-level pacakages, but drop it for subpackages. This should be a small change. I'm hesitant to propose anything new for Python 2.5, so I'm proposing it for 2.6; if Neal and Anthony think this would be okay to add to 2.5, they can do so.

I haven't scanned this whole thread yet, but my first thought was to just try to find a way to give a better error message if we find a candidate package directory, but there's no init.py file.

i.e. something like:

ImportError: init.py not found in directory '/foo' for package 'foo'

I like the fact that init.py documents, right there in the file system directory listing, that the current directory is a Python package.

Cheers, Nick.

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