On 08.12.2020 20:47, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> Anyway, I was encouraged by Brett Cannon to email this list to assess the
> appetite for introducing a backwards incompatible change to this behavior. So
> here's my strawman/hardline proposal:
> 
> 1. 3.10 introduces a DeprecationWarning for "__init__" appearing as any module
> part component (`"__init__" in fullname.split(".")`).
> 2. Some future release (I'm unsure which) turns it into a hard error.

-1 on this proposal. We don't want to needlessly break code just because
they use a feature of the existing implementation, which has been around
for decades.

Moreover, if you use namespace packages, a module __init__.py does not
have to exist in the directory, so importing pkg.__init__ is a way
to test for such a case.

> (A less aggressive proposal would be to normalize "__init__" in module names 
> to
> something more reasonable - maybe stripping trailing ".__init__" from module
> names. But I'll start by proposing the stricter solution.)

-0 on this, since it may break code. If done, Python should issue
a warning to flag the issue.

Third solution: leave things as they are and document it.

+1 on this one, since it's been like this for ages (going way back to
the Python 1.x days).

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