[Python-ideas] problems with import

[Peter Otten]

Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Peter Otten
> <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
>> Isn't that addressed with "PEP 420 -- Implicit Namespace Packages?
>>
>> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/
> 
> Unfortunately for the OP, that doesn't seem to be applicable to Python
> 2.x; also, changes made to Python in response to this list don't
> usually apply to 2.x either. Mercurial doesn't work with Python 3,
> currently, although some of the improvements to the latest Pythons
> have been in response to reported issues with hg, so it's possible
> that hg might support 3.5 or 3.6 at some point.
> 
> I don't know if there's a 2.x-compatible solution to this problem.

http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/#namespace-packages-today

But this is likely off-topic for python-ideas.