[Python-Dev] PEP 328: __path__

[François Pinard]

[Greg Ewing]
> Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com>:

> > Between the addition of ``as`` in Python 2.0 and the new syntax &
> > semantics for ``import``, there is no longer a need for ``__path__``, and
> > it is now officially deprecated.

> NO! WAIT!

> I have a project in which I'm modifying a module's __path__,
> and it's *not* to work around any deficiencies in the relative
> import mechanism. Rather it's to make a set of directories
> behave like a single package for import purposes, with the
> members of the set determined at run time.

Same here.

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