[Distutils] Pondering multi-package packages

[Fred L. Drake]

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
 > Note that WinZip, which is commonly used, doesn't archive zero-length
 > files under some circumstances; occasionally people run into this when
 > they unzip a directory and can't import from the package.  Hence the
 > convention of just putting a comment in __init__.py, to avoid having a
 > zero-length file.

  Docstrings are also nice candidates, but I don't know if that's the
right thing for the "mx" package.  It's a little different from the
simpler packages that were initialy envisioned.


  -Fred


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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>