[Python-Dev] Dropping __init__.py requirement for subpackages
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Apr 26 23:23:12 CEST 2006
"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote in message
news:5.1.1.6.0.20060426164925.01e33228 at mail.telecommunity.com...
>>It might also be good to check that the directory actually contained
>>python
>>modules.
>
> This is a great idea, but might be hard to implement in practice with the
> current C implementation of import, at least for the general case.
Perhaps checking and autogeneration of __init__.py should better be part of
a Python-aware editor/IDE. A File menu could have a New Package entry to
create a directory + empty __init__.py.
Terry Jan Reedy
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