How should multiple (related) projects be arranged (structured) and configured so that they can share code, have a related package structure and enable proper unittesting, and ensuring no namespace collisions

[Peter Otten]

ToddLMorgan at gmail.com wrote:

> ie does the first instance of the package a.b.c effectively mask out
> the others so that if a.b.c.common occurs first in the PYTHONPATH then
> a.b.c.project1 will never be found as the "a.b.c" package is only
> loaded from the a.b.c.common folder?

By default, yes. But there's a way around this limitation:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pkgutil.html 

Peter