[Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5? (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Mar 29 19:34:44 CEST 2006

At 07:47 PM 3/29/2006 +1100, Anthony Baxter wrote:

My only concern about this is that it wouldn't be possible for other authors to provide 3rd party packages as (for instance) db.mysqldb because of the way package importing works.

See the stdlib module 'pkgutil' for one way around this, that works with existing Python versions.

And the 'pkg_resources' module, slated for 2.5a2 inclusion, offers another way, that also works with modules supplied in eggs.

So this bit is going to be more of a policy decision (pkgutil vs. pkg_resources) rather than a technical problem per se.

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