15 Apr
2009
15 Apr
'09
7:38 p.m.
On Apr 15, 2009, at 12:15 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
The much more common use case is that of wanting to have a base package installation which optional add-ons that live in the same logical package namespace.
The PEP provides a way to solve this use case by giving both developers and users a standard at hand which they can follow without having to rely on some non-standard helpers and across Python implementations.
I'm not sure I understand what advantage your proposal gives over the current mechanism for doing this. That is, add to your __init__.py file: from pkgutil import extend_path __path__ = extend_path(__path__, __name__) Can you describe the intended advantages over the status-quo a bit more clearly? James