"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
- As a compromise, you might consider falling back to the email package if you determine it is good enough at installation time, by playing with xemail.__init__.__path__, or even replacing xemail with email in the same way that xml is replaced with _xmlplus.
Those kind of hacks should not be needed if Barry puts his own email package inside the Mailman package. All local imports will pick up his version automatically; even though I'd suggest to use explicit imports for it in the Mailman code to avoid magical problems ;-) Hacking __path__ should really only be the last resort... it (usually) breaks installers, gives importers a hard time, etc. We should not consider this good practice even though it may be needed sometimes (e.g. by PyXML). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/