finding the same package in multiple places

[Peter Otten]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

> Let me make it more concrete.  We have a central package, call it
> "central".
> Inside that package are three subpackages, "a", "b" and "c".  Imports thus
> look like
> 
>     import central.a
>     from central import b
>     from central.c import foo
> 
> Now suppose I need to work on subpackage c.  If I create a local package
> called "central" and install my working copy of "c" there, athen adjust
> PYTHONPATH accordingly, I can't import "central.a" or "central.b" any
> longer

I haven't used it myself, but if I read the documentation correctly,
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pkgutil.html
may do what you need.

Peter