"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
Doesn't look nice, but what other syntax would look better ? It will have to use identifiers and thus is restricted to [a-zA-Z0-9_]+.
Maybe "__up__" or "__up" following the convention that double-under names are special? Just a thought...
But what about other installations or tools like mxCrypto which plug into existing packages (Andrew's crypto package) ? Today such plugins only work side-by-side, ie. you have to install one part which sits in the plugin slot and one part which gets installed somewhere in a top-level PYTHONPATH dir. The plugin slot part then imports the Real Thing from outside the host package (this is how mxCrypto integrates itself with AMK's lib).
I am not familiar with this. Dosen't this work?: zopehome/part_in_top_level_slot.py zopemome/plugin_slot/part_in_plugin_slot.py
The solution I'm using (and Zope is too) is to wrap a complete Python installation into the product, all setup to do the right thing. It makes the archive a little heavier... which is actually not so bad from a marketing POV. Bizarre, but people seem to want all those megs.
For the record, I distribute a hacked main program which sets its own sys.path. I think your and zope's solution may break if another Python program is installed, and such program changes PYTHONPATH and/or the registry. That is why I never change PYTHONPATH nor the registry. Jim Ahlstrom