[Python-Dev] PEP 382: Namespace Packages (original) (raw)

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Wed Apr 15 19:38:19 CEST 2009

On Apr 15, 2009, at 12:15 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

The much more common use case is that of wanting to have a base package installation which optional add-ons that live in the same logical package namespace.

The PEP provides a way to solve this use case by giving both developers and users a standard at hand which they can follow without having to rely on some non-standard helpers and across Python implementations.

I'm not sure I understand what advantage your proposal gives over the
current mechanism for doing this.

That is, add to your init.py file:

from pkgutil import extend_path path = extend_path(path, name)

Can you describe the intended advantages over the status-quo a bit
more clearly?

James

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