[Import-SIG] Namespace Packages resolution

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 04:17:59 CET 2012


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Carl Meyer <carl at oddbird.net> wrote:
> If this is indeed the proposed algorithm, then I think the "backwards
> compatibility" item on Nick's list of objections is unfounded. The new
> behavior will only occur in situations that would previously have
> resulted in an ImportError.

The complaint that it's a complicated hack that is only necessary to
cope with the lack of explicit package markers still stands, though.
(But yes, I was definitely going off the parenthetical comment rather
than the earlier description that contradicted that part).

Cheers,
Nick.

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