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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Apr 27 04:42:55 CEST 2006

Boy, threads here sure move fast when there's work to be done :). Although largely moot now, I'll follow up for posterity's sake.

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:59 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Oh, cool gray area. I propose that if there's no init.py it prints '/sub1/sun2/' i.e. with a trailing slash; that causes dirname to just strip the '/'. (It would be a backslash on Windows of course).

Yep, that's the right thing to do.

Given all the other traffic in this thread, I don't have much more to add except:

I probably don't remember things accurately, but ISTR that init.py was added as a way to expose names in the package's namespace first. We probably went from that to requiring init.py as a way to be explicit about what directories are packages and which aren't. So I suspect you're right when you say that if the rule had already been relaxed and you were now proposing to tighten the rules, we probably get just as many complaints.

alternative-universe-ly y'rs, -Barry

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