Setuptools, __init__ and __main__

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/06/2015 02:56 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> 
> It's not Setuptools per se, it's Python's import mechanism. It is a
> deliberate design decision that direct import of a module makes that
> module blind to its location in the package hierarchy.
> 
> That's a design decision I deplore, because it makes something that
> should be easy (write a command directly into a file and invoke that
> file as an executable program) tortuously difficult when the program
> comprises several modules.

Can you explain that a bit more?  Surely if the writing a command into a file was going to be easy, then so would be
writing it to __main__.py instead?

--
~Ethan~

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