On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
> After reading Eric's doc patch, I realized there is one change I want to
> make to the current semantics and that's not to backfill __package__ when
> set to None. Since import is now going to take over the job of setting
> __package__ (along with other attributes), this seems like a slight waste of
> effort. It also kills (or at least complicates) having a loader which does
> lazy loading since reading the attribute to see if it is None would trigger
> the load before leaving the import code, thus killing any postponed loading.

Fine with me.  I may have time today to make the outstanding updates to the PEP.