Having a __stdlib__ namespace?

Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters mertz at gnosis.cx
Fri Jan 10 03:49:16 EST 2003


Daniel Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote previously:
|:    D:\Python22\Lib\__init__.py

|I didn't think about that one... cool!  You're right though: the one
|problem I'd see about is that this would be platform specific, as
|Python's libraries live in "lib/pythonX.X" on some Unix systems.

It doesn't come "out of the box" this way, but you could easily create
your own directory on the import path that was a link to the actual
library path.  And you could name it something like 'std' or '__std__'.
Once such a link was added, the OP's prefered import form will work.

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