Importing modules through directory shortcuts on Windows

[Thomas Heller]

Brian Quinlan wrote:
> Recently, I became responsible for maintaining some Python code, which 
> was organized as follows:
> 
> user/pylib
>       ui
>       ...
> project2/pylib
>           ui
>           ...
> project3/pylib
>           ui
>           ...
> python-packages/user => /user/pylib
>                  project2 => /project2/pylib
>                  project3 => /project3/pylib
> 
> The idea is that "python-packages" is added to sys.path and then every 
> project can import the library package from every other project. NOTE: I 
> think that this structure is crazy but I'm just the poor maintenance 
> programmer.
> 
> Anyway, the problem is that Windows does not have a symlink facility to 
> accommodate this (AFAIK) and the Python import mechanism does not 
> resolve shortcuts.
> 
> Therefore, I wrote a very simple import hook to get around that problem. 
>   If you are interested, the code is here:
> http://www.sweetapp.com/shortcut/shortcutimporter.py
> 
> BTW, does anyone else think that this functionality should be part of 
> core Python?

I wonder (but haven't yet figured out) if something similar can be achived 
with pkgutil and one or more .pkg files.

Thomas