[Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 26, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> If it really is a common habit to have single-file modules with
> associated data files directly rooted under a namespace package, we
> could change the API to allow passing in a module and have it be
> interpreted as "find the data as sibling files of this module." But
> when given a package I would still prefer that it would look inside
> the package. But to avoid ambiguities when something that's a module
> in one version but a package in another I would really prefer to avoid
> this.

Yes, it should look inside a package.  Very often, a data directory  
will be made a package through the addition of a __init__.py just so  
the data can be found.  There are often no other py files in such data  
packages.

Barry

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