On Dec 28, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Philip Jenvey wrote:
>
> On Dec 28, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Michael Bayer wrote:
>
>>
>> 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 ?
>
> Paste/Script/Deploy and the repoze projects come to mind. Here's some others:
>
> http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=file%3A__init__%5C.py%24+pkg_resources+pkgutil&sbtn=Search
Here's what I see in all of those - its in the root package, not a ".contrib".
That seems a little curious ? Our root package has a lot of names pulled in
already so I don't suppose we can/should really go that route.
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