[Import-SIG] PEP 382 update

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 01:02:57 CEST 2011


On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:36 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> This approach also supports one of the original motivations of
> PEP 382, namely that Linux distributions can opt to install many
> package portions (such as zope.*) into a single file system location.
> With this PEP, this would all end up in zope.pyp (e.g.
> zope.pyp/tal; or even zope.pyp/tal.pyp, since TAL doesn't use
> the __init__.py feature).

Given that this is an extension of the way we mark modules themselves
via extensions (i.e. mod.py, mod.pyc, mod.pyo, mod.pyd) while ignoring
other files with the same name, an explicit extension for directories
works for me.

Cheers,
Nick.

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