Developing Techniques (and naming conventions)

[Steve Holden]

Adekoba wrote:
> On Feb 24, 1:06 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
>> Adekoba wrote:
>>> food.py
>>> food/
>>>       __init__.py
>>>       ham.py
>>>       cheese.py
>>> where food.py is a script that uses the package food. Is it possible
>>> for this to work in any way? Every time I try to run food.py, python
>>> tries to import everything from the script instead of from the
>>> package. How can I fix this?
>> Move the code from food.py to food/__init__.py. You can't have a package
>> and a module with the same name.
>>
>> Christian
> 
> So it is not possible?
> 
> I don't think moving food.py's code to __init__.py would work out to
> well, because then how would I run the script?

You run food/__init__.py with the following statement:

import food

regards
  Steve
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