[Python-3000] New Import Behavior

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:24:01 -0500, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
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>On Jan 15, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Armin Ronacher wrote:
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>> `thirdparty` is in the pythonpath, the folder where in `yourapp` is
>> in too.
>> If now someone tries to import `yourapp.plugins.plugin3` this would
>> not work
>> because python stops the import process somewhere in `yourapp/
>> plugins/` not
>> trying the `thirdparty` folder at all. For plugin systems this is
>> very bad. Java
>> solves that better.
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>Use __path__

For example:

  http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/plugins/__init__.py

Jean-Paul