On 17 March 2017 at 14:40, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unless the __init__.py has its own __path__ extension code, whichever > version of "foo" is first on sys.path will "win", and you won't be able to > import from the other one (so you'll be able to import "foo.bar" or > "foo.baz", but not both). That's not an accident, it's behaviour that was > deliberately kept for backwards compatibility reasons when PEP 420's native > namespace package support was being designed.
Really? OK, I feel stupid now, I've been making a fuss over something that's actually not possible. I should have tested this. My apologies (in my defense, I could have sworn I remembered someone else making precisely this point sometime in the past, but I guess I'll have to put that down to advancing age and brain decay...) My apologies, I stand corrected. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
