[Python-checkins] CVS: distutils/doc/dist dist.tex,1.13,1.14
Greg Ward
python-dev@python.org
Thu, 25 May 2000 19:24:33 -0700
Update of /cvsroot/python/distutils/doc/dist
In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv22310
Modified Files:
dist.tex
Log Message:
Guido's rewording of my definition of "root package", with an addition by me.
Index: dist.tex
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/distutils/doc/dist/dist.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -C2 -r1.13 -r1.14
*** dist.tex 2000/05/26 01:04:47 1.13
--- dist.tex 2000/05/26 02:24:28 1.14
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in a directory in the filesystem and distinguished from other
directories by the presence of a file \file{\_\_init\_\_.py}.
! \item[root package] the ``package'' that modules not in a package live
! in. The vast majority of the standard library is in the root package,
! as are many small, standalone third-party modules that don't belong to
! a larger module collection. (The root package isn't really a package,
! since it doesn't have an \file{\_\_init\_\_.py} file. But we have to
! call it something.)
\end{description}
--- 172,183 ----
in a directory in the filesystem and distinguished from other
directories by the presence of a file \file{\_\_init\_\_.py}.
! \item[root package] the root of the hierarchy of packages. (This isn't
! really a package, since it doesn't have an \file{\_\_init\_\_.py}
! file. But we have to call it something.) The vast majority of the
! standard library is in the root package, as are many small, standalone
! third-party modules that don't belong to a larger module collection.
! Unlike regular packages, modules in the root package can be found in
! many directories: in fact, every directory listed in \code{sys.path}
! can contribute modules to the root package.
\end{description}