On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Baiju M wrote:
> Hi All,
> Now we have 'setuptools' as a dependency for all packages.
> (I guess this is to make Buildout happy ?)
No, it is because setuptools is needed for namespace packages.
> So, it is certain that 'pkg_resources' module will be always
> available as it is bundled with 'setuptools'. If that is the case,
> why do we need a fall-back import of 'pkgutil' to declare
> a namespace package?
We don't.
>
>
> So instead of:
>
> try:
> import pkg_resources
> pkg_resources.declare_namespace(__name__)
> except ImportError:
> import pkgutil
> __path__ = pkgutil.extend_path(__path__, __name__)
>
> Just this line would be enough to declare a namespace:
>
> __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
>
> Am I missing something ?
Nope.
Jim
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Zope Corporation
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