[Python-Dev] pkgutil, pkg_resource and Python 3.0 name space packages (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Jan 6 20:23:27 CET 2008

At 07:34 PM 1/6/2008 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote:

Steven Bethard wrote: > Do we really want to encourage this? Wouldn't that just introduce > more pyxml-like nightmares? I've been bitten way too many times by > pyxml overwriting the regular xml package and causing version > incompatibilities. I'd hate for this kind of thing to become common > practice.

I like to give 3rd party software a chance to extend a name space package like xml rather then to overwrite it. As far as I understand your problem pyxml is overwriting the name space and claiming it for itself rather than extending it.

Indeed. It should also be noted that namespace packages are actually a very mature technology at this point. Before setuptools, pkgutil already supported them, from the time of 2.3's release.

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