[Python-Dev] Draft: PEP for imports

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:15 PM 1/30/04 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>Other than relative imports, the only other thing I occasionally miss in
>Python's import semantics is the fact that more than one file system
>space can't be mapped into one package namespace without trickery.  E.g.
>if in "import my.package.sub1" and "import my.package.sub2", the
>directories sub1 and sub2 didn't have to live under a directory called
>my/package.

Didn't Guido write a 'pkgutil' module for this?  Or am I confusing what he 
wrote with what you want?  :)