[Distutils] pkg_resources.declare_namespace inconsistency vs pkgutil.extend_path

Philip Jenvey pjenvey at underboss.org
Thu Feb 28 04:19:15 CET 2008


Paste uses pkg_resources.declare_namespace:

>>> import sys
 >>> import paste
 >>> paste.__path__
['/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Paste-1.6-py2.5.egg/paste',  
'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PasteDeploy-1.3.1-py2.5.egg/ 
paste', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PasteScript-1.6.2- 
py2.5.egg/paste']
 >>> del sys.modules['paste']
 >>> import paste
 >>> paste.__path__
['/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Paste-1.6-py2.5.egg/paste']

Whereas pkgutil.extend_path does the right thing and restores  
paste.__path__ to contain the 3 paths

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Philip Jenvey




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