My project pulls the protobuf source directly from code.google.com, and
builds the tools and libs (protoc, libprotobuf, libprotobuf-lite) as part of
its build process. But now I want to use protos from Python, and I'm having
trouble getting the python protobuf library to import properly from the
The purpose of that line is to declare that the google package is just a
namespace, so that other google projects (like AppEngine) can also place
their code under google. In retrospect, we probably should have just
created a top-level protobuf package.
If you make sure that all packages that you