[Python-Dev] Draft PEP: "Simplified Package Layout and Partitioning"

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 09:53 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:58:55 -0400
> > "P.J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Anyway, to make a long story short, we came up with an alternative
> >> implementation plan that actually solves some other problems besides
> >> the one that PEP 382 sets out to solve, and whose implementation a
> >> bit is easier to explain.  (In fact, for users coming from various
> >> other languages, it hardly needs any explanation at all.)
> >
> > I have a question.
> >
> > If I have (on sys.path) a module "x.py" containing, say:
> >
> >    y = 5
> >
> > and (also on sys.path), a directory "x" containing a "y.py" module.
> >
> > What is "from x import y" supposed to do?
> >
> > (currently, it would bind "y" to its value in x.py)
> 
> It would behave the same as it does today: the imported value of 'y' would be 5.
> 
> Virtual packages only kick in if an import would otherwise fail.

Wouldn't it produce confusing situations like the above example?

Regards

Antoine.