[Python-Dev] Dropping __init__.py requirement for subpackages

[Barry Warsaw]

Boy, threads here sure move fast when there's work to be done :).
Although largely moot now, I'll follow up for posterity's sake.

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:59 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Oh, cool gray area. I propose that if there's no __init__.py it prints
> '<path>/sub1/sun2/' i.e. with a trailing slash; that causes dirname to
> just strip the '/'. (It would be a backslash on Windows of course).

Yep, that's the right thing to do.

Given all the other traffic in this thread, I don't have much more to
add except:

I probably don't remember things accurately, but ISTR that __init__.py
was added as a way to expose names in the package's namespace first.  We
probably went from that to requiring __init__.py as a way to be explicit
about what directories are packages and which aren't.  So I suspect
you're right when you say that if the rule had already been relaxed and
you were now proposing to tighten the rules, we probably get just as
many complaints.

alternative-universe-ly y'rs,
-Barry

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