On Dec 28, 2010, at 2:22 AM, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> On 2010-12-28 08:18, Hong Minhee wrote:
>> I don’t know why setuptools provides pkg_resources, implements another
>> incompatible way to declare namespace packages, additionally in spite of
>> existence of pkgutil.extend_path, the standard way to do it. IMO
>> sqlalchemy.contrib namespace have to be declared by using
>> pkgutil.extend_path, because it is a part of Python standard library so
>> it don’t force users to install setuptools.
> 
> The vast majority of packages using namespaces that I have seen support both 
> with this snippet:
> 
> try:
>    __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
> except ImportError:
>    from pkgutil import extend_path
>    __path__ = extend_path(__path__, __name__)
> 
> 
> I would suggest that SQLAlchemy does the same thing.

what are some of these packages ?   Can I see some examples so I can get a feel 
for how this is used and what naming schemes are common ?



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