migrating to packages

Hrvoje Niksic hniksic at xemacs.org
Thu Oct 4 04:38:16 EDT 2007


Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com> writes:

> it's quite common to use the __init__.py of the package (as
> explained by Ben) as a facade to the internal organization of the
> package, so you can change this internal organization without
> breaking client code.

We agree on that.  It is the OP who *wants* to access his modules
directly without ever naming the package.  That is why I think he is
missing the point of having a package in the first place.

>> That way, if someone creates another module with using the same
>> name (mymodule), it won't conflict with yours.  If you don't want
>> to change mymodule to mypackage.mymodule, why use a package in the
>> first place?
>
> Because you have too much code to keep it in a single file.

There is no "single file", the OP already has modules A and B.



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