On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a less disruptive counterproposal. How about just starting
to refer to directories (or folders, or zip entries) with
'__init__.py' in them as package modules? A package is-a module
anyway.
That's a good idea.
I belive a
zooko wrote:
Folks:
Here's an experiment you can perform. Round up a Python programmer and
ask him the following three questions:
Q1. You type import foo and it works. What kind of thing is foo?
foo is a package or a module. Not enough information is provide here to
say which.
Q2.
On 10:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
zooko wrote:
Unfortunately these answers aren't quite right. A package is
actually a directory containing an __init__.py file, and a
distribution is actually what you think of when you say package -- a
reusable package of Python code that you can, for
Nick Coghlan wrote:
zooko wrote:
Q1. You type import foo and it works. What kind of thing is foo?
foo is a package or a module. Not enough information is provide here to
say which.
Actually, it could be anything! But it's *probably* a module
(or package, but a package is also a module,
