PROPOSAL: Packages in Python lib

[Christopher Petrilli]

Peter A. Koren <pkoren at hex.net> wrote:
> Hans Nowak wrote:
>> 
>  I have been trying
>> myself to organize all kinds of modules in a package collection, and a
>> problem that occurs quite often is, that a module can logically belong in
>> more than one package. For instance, modules dealing with HTML parsing, do
>> they belong in the Internet package, or in the Text package? (Yes, you don't
>> have those packages here... but I do. :^)

> Hmmmmm, it sounds like we need some conditional import mechanism. C uses
> the preprocessor:

> #ifndef themodule
> #define themodule
> 	...
> #endif

> I am too new to Python to hack the solution, but a conditional import
> approach might work.

>From billions of modules I've written:

try:
    import cPickle
    pickle=cPickle
except ImportError:
    import pickle

Is this what you meant? :-)

This gives me a 'pickle' object which refers to the C implementation if 
available, and the regular python one if not.

Chris
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