[Zope3-dev] Importing

[Lalo Martins]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:12:20PM +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > I don't find that an important requirement.
> 
> Use case:
> 
> I want to place my unit tests in a sub package in my main package. Let's
> imagine my package is called NodePath and let's imagine it's a sub package
> of ParsedXML, which is a Zope product. It has a 'tests' subpackage containing
> the unit tests.
> 
> In order to write the unit tests, I need to be able to import the NodePath code
> in the package above it. The NodePath code has been written so that it can
> (hopefully) be used with DOM implementations other than the one in ParsedXML.
> Thus, I'd not want the 'tests' sub package to be dependent on ParsedXML.

Sorry, I have to agree with Guido. If you don't want NodePath to be
dependent on ParsedXML, then it shouldn't be a subpackage. Install it
(in a Zope2 environment) in lib/python or even lib/python/Shared/Faassen.

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