<p>PJE's proposal that self-contained package loaders *also* report their prospective __path__ entries in the second half of the tuple sounds reasonable to me. It provides a way to cleanly distinguish all 4 significant cases (standalone module, regular package, package portion, not found).</p>
<p>The standard import system will treat the first two cases the same way, but making the distinction official means custom import systems can decide to do something different. </p>
<p>Cheers,<br>
Nick.</p>
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