On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 July 2013 13:49, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: >> >> The dead-simple, extremely elegant solution (starting in Python 3.4) is to >> make pip a namespace package in the stdlib with nothing more than a >> __main__.py file that installs pip; no checking if it's installed and then >> running it, etc, just blindly install pip. Then, if you install pip as a >> regular package, it takes precedence and what's in the stdlib is completely >> ignored (this helps with any possible staleness with the stdlib's bootstrap >> script vs. what's in pip, etc.). You don't even need to change the >> __main__.py in pip as it stands today since namespace packages only work if >> no regular package is found. > > > Wow - that is exceptionally cool. I had never realised namespace packages > would work like this.
Not exceptionally cool ... and that's why the namespace_package form is popular, since the first package in a set of namespace packages that gets it wrong breaks everything. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
