[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: Note that ImportError will no longer be raised due to a missing init.py (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Apr 20 04:59:18 CEST 2012

It's actually an ImportWarning, not Error (or at least that's what I meant on import-sig). If the module is eventually found then there is no error.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 18:56, eric.smith <python-checkins at python.org>wrote:

http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/af61fe9a56fb changeset: 4281:af61fe9a56fb user: Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> date: Thu Apr 19 18:56:22 2012 -0400 summary: Note that ImportError will no longer be raised due to a missing init.py file.

files: pep-0420.txt | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pep-0420.txt b/pep-0420.txt --- a/pep-0420.txt +++ b/pep-0420.txt @@ -148,6 +148,11 @@ path. With namespace packages, all entries in the path must be scanned. +Note that an ImportError will no longer be raised for a directory +lacking an _init_.py file. Such a directory will now be imported +as a namespace package, whereas in prior Python versions an +ImportError would be raised. + At PyCon 2012, we had a discussion about namespace packages at which PEP 382 and PEP 402 were rejected, to be replaced by this PEP [1]. -- Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/peps

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