On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

On 2010-02-04 11:05 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Riccardo-Maria BIANCHI  wrote:

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Hi,

Hi,

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I have a package structured like this:

package/__init__.py   src/ __init__.py          mod1.py   share/__init__.py            mod2.py

Now I can import them as: package.src.mod1 package.share.mod2

How can I use Distutils to be able to import both of them under the same "package" namespace as:

import package.mod1 import package.mod2

unrelated to Distutils but,

What you can do is add these line in package/__init__.py :

  from package.src import mod1   from package.share import mod2

Beware though, that this means the modules will be loaded even if "import package" is called, which could have some unwanted side effects depending on the code.

This does not work. You cannot "import package.mod1" under this scenario.

Right, only "from package import mod1" works. Not sure why you want to remove the __init__.py files in sub and share in your solution though. -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org

Thanks Robert and Tarek for your answer, I implemented the __path__ solution, and it works perfectly. Thanks! and sorry if I was off-topic: I thought that distutils had options for multi-folders setup, for "package_dir" and "packages" variables. Best regards, Ric. Robert Kern wrote:

On 2010-02-04 11:06 AM, Robert Kern wrote:

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On 2010-02-04 10:53 AM, Riccardo-Maria BIANCHI wrote:

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Hi,

I have a package structured like this:

package/__init__.py src/ __init__.py mod1.py share/__init__.py mod2.py

Now I can import them as: package.src.mod1 package.share.mod2

How can I use Distutils to be able to import both of them under the same "package" namespace as:

import package.mod1 import package.mod2

?

Thanks a lot in advance for your kind help!

Remove the package/src/__init__.py and package/share/__init__.py . In your package/__init__.py, append the src/ and share/ directories to the __path__ list.

See this essay for more documentation on this feature:

http://www.python.org/doc/essays/packages.html

On 2010-02-04 11:37 AM, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 05:53:16PM +0100, Riccardo-Maria BIANCHI wrote:

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Now I can import them as: package.src.mod1 package.share.mod2

How can I use Distutils to be able to import both of them under the same "package" namespace as:

import package.mod1 import package.mod2

In package/__init__.py:

import src.mod1 as mod1 import share.mod2 as mod2

And then you can use just one "import package" statement. If you want src and share to be separately installable then it gets more complicated (you'd need namespace packages etc), but why complicated when simple works?

Because simple doesn't work. You cannot do "import package.mod1" or "from package.mod1 import foo" with that scheme. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco