-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/24/2011 03:14 PM, Fred Drake wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Raymond Hettinger > <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ISTM, that if we're going to use python packages as "namespace containers" >> for >> categorizing modules, then the top level __init__ namespace should be left >> empty. > > This is only an issue if the separate components are distributed > separately; for the standard library, we're not using it as a > namespace package in the same sense that is done with (for example) > the "zope" package.
It might matter if we want to enable third-party package installation into a namespace also used by the stdlib: ISTR that the 'xml' package had such installs at one point. If that pattern is a goal, having all versions of the namespace's __init__.py empty of anything but the __path__-munging majyk / boilerplate is required to make such installs work regardless of the order of PYTHONPATH. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk099jAACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7e4gCfbYJE8d8bNrX19zrzC4xvfA9Y KkQAnA7niExvMqXtUBD/XwzZZ9EzHcBm =/Q/Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
