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

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Thu Apr 27 15🔞50 CEST 2006 

Guido> One particular egregious problem is that *subpackage* are subject
Guido> to the same rule. It so happens that there is essentially only
Guido> one top-level package in the Google code base, and it already has
Guido> an __init__.py file. But developers create new subpackages at a
Guido> frightening rate, and forgetting to do "touch __init__.py" has
Guido> caused many hours of lost work, not to mention injuries due to
Guido> heads banging against walls.

That's why God created make:

install:
    touch __init__.py
    blah blah blah

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