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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Apr 27 19:25:33 CEST 2006

On 4/27/06, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:

I could check it in, except the make-testall I ran overnight showed a small problem: the patch would generate a number of spurious warnings in the trunk:

/home/thomas/python/python/trunk/Lib/gzip.py:9: ImportWarning: Not importing directory '/home/thomas/python/python/trunk/Modules/zlib': missing init.py /home/thomas/python/python/trunk/Lib/ctypes/init.py:8: ImportWarning: Not importing directory '/home/thomas/python/python/trunk/Modules/ctypes': missing init.py (and a few more zlib ones.) The reason for that is that ./Modules is added to the import path, by a non-installed Python. This is because of the pre-distutils Modules/Setup-style build method of modules (which is still sometimes used.) I can't find where Modules is added to sys.path, though, even if I wanted to remove it :) So, do we: a) forget about the warning because of the layout of the svn tree (bad, imho) 2) rename Modules/zlib and Modules/ctypes to avoid the warning (inconvenient, but I don't know how inconvenient) - fix the build procedure so Modules isn't added to sys.path unless it absolutely has to (which is only very rarely the case, I believe) or lastly, make regrtest.py ignore those specific warnings?

I'd say the latter. That's how we deal with warnings during the test suite in general don't we?

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