[Python-Dev] pkgutil, pkg_resource and Python 3.0 name space packages

[Christian Heimes]

Steven Bethard wrote:
> Do we really want to encourage this?  Wouldn't that just introduce
> more pyxml-like nightmares?  I've been bitten way too many times by
> pyxml overwriting the regular xml package and causing version
> incompatibilities.  I'd hate for this kind of thing to become common
> practice.

I like to give 3rd party software a chance to *extend* a name space
package like xml rather then to overwrite it. As far as I understand
your problem pyxml is overwriting the name space and claiming it for
itself rather than extending it.

Christian