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Fri Jan 30 20:39:08 EST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/042375.html

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 20:25, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 08:15 PM 1/30/04 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 
> >Other than relative imports, the only other thing I occasionally miss in
> >Python's import semantics is the fact that more than one file system
> >space can't be mapped into one package namespace without trickery.  E.g.
> >if in "import my.package.sub1" and "import my.package.sub2", the
> >directories sub1 and sub2 didn't have to live under a directory called
> >my/package.
> 
> Didn't Guido write a 'pkgutil' module for this?  Or am I confusing what he 
> wrote with what you want?  :)

He did!  I totally spaced on that.  Okay, Python packages are more close
to perfect than I thought. :)

Maybe, though, it's time to get rid of this warning from
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-pkgutil.html

        Warning: This is an experimental module. It may be withdrawn or
        completely changed up to an including the release of Python 2.3
        beta 1.

:)

-Barry

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[Python-Dev] Draft: PEP for imports