Making module content available in parent module

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:36:05 +0100, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
>> PS: I've been trying a few things here, and stumbled across another
>> thing that could provide a solution. I can "from tests import *", but
>> then all these modules will pollute my namespace. I can "import tests",
>> but then neither of the submodules will be in "tests". I tried "import
>> tests.*", but that doesn't work. Is there no way to import a whole
>> package but with its namespace?
> 
> The package needs to know what submodules to make available. Put inside
> __init__.py:
> 
> 
> import foo
> import bar
> 
> and then from outside the package, do this:
> 
> import tests
> 
> Now tests.foo and tests.bar will exist.

I've been reading up on packages, but I didn't find anything like that in
the documentation, all I found was the meaning of __all__. If I import the
modules explicitly there, there's no need to define __all__, unless there
are some I don't want to import there, right? Well, I'll try it and see. ;)

Steven, thank you for this explanation!

Uli

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