New subject: [Python-checkins] peps: Note that ImportError will no longer be raised due to a missing __init__.py

April 19, 2012

It's actually an ImportWarning, not Error (or at least that's what I meant
on import-sig). If the module is eventually found then there is no error.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 18:56, eric.smith <python-checkins@python.org>wrote:
...
http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/af61fe9a56fb
changeset:   4281:af61fe9a56fb
user:        Eric V. Smith <eric@trueblade.com>
date:        Thu Apr 19 18:56:22 2012 -0400
summary:
 Note that ImportError will no longer be raised due to a missing
__init__.py file.
files:
 pep-0420.txt |  5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pep-0420.txt b/pep-0420.txt
--- a/pep-0420.txt
+++ b/pep-0420.txt
@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@
 path. With namespace packages, all entries in the path must be
 scanned.
+Note that an ImportError will no longer be raised for a directory
+lacking an ``__init__.py`` file. Such a directory will now be imported
+as a namespace package, whereas in prior Python versions an
+ImportError would be raised.
+
 At PyCon 2012, we had a discussion about namespace packages at which
 PEP 382 and PEP 402 were rejected, to be replaced by this PEP [1]_.
--
Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/peps
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