[Distutils] Skipping namespace file?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 03:46 PM 1/6/2007 -0500, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
>Sounds good, but I still am confused as to why there should not be a 
>site-packages/dap/__init__.py in the installed lib area.  For this package 
>there isn't too much in there, but some packages include things like 
>version numbers and defaults in their __init__.py.

Yes, but then they shouldn't declare them (implicitly or explicitly) as 
namespace packages.  A namespace package, by definition, is one whose sole 
purpose is to provide a namespace for modules and subpackages.  It cannot 
provide any contents of its own.

>   For dap, we would be leaving out the overview documentation for import 
> dap;help(dap).  If the case really is that there should not be a 
> dap/__init__.py, where do I tell the author of the package to move that 
> documentation such that help(dap) will still provide as much info?

There isn't any such place, I'm afraid.  The alternative would be to use 
some other package as a base for plugins and responses, e.g. 
dap_ext.plugins and dap_ext.responses, so that 'dap' would not be a 
namespace package itself.