Modules that provide differing functionality amongst different Python versions...

[Allan Crooks]

aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote in message news:<a9ut8d$dql$1 at panix3.panix.com>...
> In article <304d20df.0204210629.3f2b4d58 at posting.google.com>,
> Allan Crooks <googlegroups at sixtyten.org> wrote:
> >
> >Another thought I've had is doing it by specifying, say for module
> >'x', having modules 'x_20', 'x_21', 'x_22', with x simply finding out
> >what versions of Python it is running on, and then compiling all
> >modules it can deal with, and then importing all objects into it's
> >namespace.
> 
> Yup.  But do it with a package.

Umm... pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is a package in terms of
Python? I assume it's just a module that does some form of importing
of sub-modules (perhaps it uses "from module import *")?

Allan.