At 11:27 PM 3/26/2009 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:

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What I'd really like is essentially some form of "virtual filesystem" access to stuff addressed relative to a Python package name,

P.J. Eby responded:

Note that relative to a *Python package name* isn't quite as useful, due to namespace packages. To be unambiguous as to the targeted resource, one needs to be able to reference a specific project, and that requires you to go off the name of a module *within* a package. For example, 'zope.somemodule' rather than just 'zope'.

I would expect it to be *most* important then. If I know for sure that an entire package is all together in a single directory, I can just use that directory. If I want all xxx files used by zope, then ... I *do* want information on the duplicates, and the multiple locations. -jJ