[Python-Dev] Built-in sub modules

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Albert Zeyer <albzey at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > I also searched a bit around and I didn't directly found any easier
> > way to do this. Only a post from 2009
> > (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/cplusplus-sig/2009-January/014178.html
> )
> > which seems like a much more ugly hack.
>
> Right, it isn't currently supported.
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1644818 is a long standard feature request
> to add this functionality.
>
> For Python 3.3, the old import system (written in C) has been replaced
> with importlib (written in Python). This should make it easier to
> extend and experiment with builtin submodule support. An importlib
> based solution should also work in Python 3.2.
>
> Further discussions would be best directed to import-sig, until an
> importlib based solution is available for consideration.
>

I actually had code to make extensions modules work in packages as well,
but removed it when it broke "compatibility".
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