[Python-Dev] PEP 328: path (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Apr 5 01:16:26 EDT 2004

Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com>:

Between the addition of as in Python 2.0 and the new syntax & semantics for import, there is no longer a need for _path_, and it is now officially deprecated.

NO! WAIT!

I have a project in which I'm modifying a module's path, and it's not to work around any deficiencies in the relative import mechanism. Rather it's to make a set of directories behave like a single package for import purposes, with the members of the set determined at run time.

Will there be any easy way to do this under the new scheme? If not, can you please try to find some way to make path work sensibly with the new rules.

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