[Python-Dev] Sharing expat instances

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:56 AM 12/14/2005 -0800, Scott David Daniels wrote:
>My (admittedly weak) understanding of how packages work is that all
>parts of a package should lie off the same node of the PYTHONPATH.

This isn't a requirement; packages have a __path__ attribute which can 
include more than one directory.  The 'pkgutil' module (added in Python 
2.3) even has a convenient way to merge parts of a package that are in 
separate directories.