[Python-Dev] Patch 1644818: Allow importing built-in submodules (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at ctypes.org
Tue Mar 13 19:52:26 CET 2007

Phillip J. Eby schrieb:

At 11:50 PM 3/12/2007 +0100, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Does distutils support this kind of setup? Modules/Setup? distutils does, and has from its inception, as far as I know.

IOW, I would expect that there are sooo many places where extension modules in packages are not supported The only thing I know of that doesn't support it very well is py2exe, actually. PEAK has had extensions modules in subpackages for many years now, and never run into any problems. In fact, py2exe's only problem with it is that it still requires such modules to have globally unique names -- you can't have both a foo.speedups extension and a bar.speedups extension. (This actually happened with RuleDispatch and PyProtocols; I ended up renaming them to pspeedups and dspeedups to better support py2exe users.)

It is kind of funny that I contributed a patch to the McMillan installer to support extension modules in packages years ago, but never bothered to implement that in py2exe. If anyone contributes a patch for py2exe, I can integrate it...

Thomas

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