"James C. Ahlstrom" wrote:
Jim Fulton wrote:
"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
In the end, having written a self-contained package is a "feature" of that package. Other authors can then say: ok, I can plugin your package if it's self-contained.
Well said. It really should be possible to provide *self-contained* package hierarchies.
There are at least two people in this discussion that are trying hard to make use of packages and have observed a significant problem.
OK, just to make sure I understand this. You are saying that a ".." operation is needed in imports so that a package author with a package which looks like this: mypackage mypackage/sub1/mod1.py mypackage/sub2/mod2.py
can write "import __.sub2.mod2" instead of "import mypackage.sub2.mod2" within the file mod1.py. Right?
Yup. Note that sys.modules would still have the absolute paths for keys. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@digicool.com Technical Director (888) 344-4332 Python Powered! Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://www.python.org Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B) This email address may not be added to any commercial mail list with out my permission. Violation of my privacy with advertising or SPAM will result in a suit for a MINIMUM of $500 damages/incident, $1500 for repeats.