[Python-Dev] python package

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Gordon McMillan wrote:
> Marc-Andre,
> 
> In this thread you have posted:
> 
> 
>>python.py:
>>__path__ = ['.']
> 
> 
> and
> 
> 
>>def _redirect(mx_subpackage):
>>    global __path__
>>    import os,mx
>>    __path__ = \
>> [os.path.join(mx.__path__[0],mx_subpackage)]
> 
> 
> and
> 
> 
>>testmodload.py:
>>import sys, os
>>sys.modules['testmodload'] = os
> 
> 
> None of these will freeze successfully.

Hmm, then how do you freeze _xmlplue ?

> Two of them appear to rely on an implementation
> detail - that __path__ (only defined for
> imp.PKG_DIRECTORY's) will be followed even in
> a plain module.

AFAIK, that's not an implementation detail, but a documented
way of finding out whether a module is a package or not.

> The third is exactly what _xmlplus does, and
> consensus appears to be that that was a 
> mistake.
> 
> "Clever" does not mean "good".

But it works (tm) :-)

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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