Christian Theune wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 18:18 +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote: >> We discovered this when Christian Theune said he wanted his package >> __init__.py empty as otherwise he runs into circular import issues. Some >> of the others including myself were puzzled as we put APIs in >> __init__.py quite frequently without such problems. Turned out it was >> because he is using the same convention for imports you do, and we weren't. > > The conclusion that I took from that round was that either approach > works reasonably well (with its own limitations) by itself, but mixing > them increases the chance for import problems a lot.
Yes. The from import method supports putting an API in __init__.py while the other method does not (unless, I imagine, deferred import is used). The import dotted.name method allows, well, itself. Seems people just gravitated to each pole according to their preferences, and find out the other approach causes problems. :) Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )