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

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Thu Apr 27 16:39:15 CEST 2006

On 4/27/06, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:

Alrighty then. The list has about 12 hours to convince me (and you) that it's a bad idea to generate that warning. I'll be asleep by the time the trunk un-freezes, and I have a string of early meetings tomorrow. I'll get to it somewhere in the afternoon :)

I could check it in, except the make-testall I ran overnight showed a small problem: the patch would generate a number of spurious warnings in the trunk:

/home/thomas/python/python/trunk/Lib/gzip.py:9: ImportWarning: Not importing directory '/home/thomas/python/python/trunk/Modules/zlib': missing init.py

/home/thomas/python/python/trunk/Lib/ctypes/init.py:8: ImportWarning: Not importing directory '/home/thomas/python/python/trunk/Modules/_ctypes': missing init.py

(and a few more zlib ones.) The reason for that is that ./Modules is added to the import path, by a non-installed Python. This is because of the pre-distutils Modules/Setup-style build method of modules (which is still sometimes used.) I can't find where Modules is added to sys.path, though, even if I wanted to remove it :)

So, do we: a) forget about the warning because of the layout of the svn tree (bad, imho) 2) rename Modules/zlib and Modules/_ctypes to avoid the warning (inconvenient, but I don't know how inconvenient)

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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