Package Organization (was Re: [Zope3-dev] Voting on Schema design)

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Barry A. Warsaw writes:
 > Interesting.  So Zope/__init__.py should contain something like:
 > 
 > -------------------- snip snip --------------------
 > import os
 > import sys
 > 
 > for dir in sys.path:
 >     fullpath = os.path.join(dir, 'Zope')
 >     initfile = os.path.join(fullpath, '__init__.py')
 >     if os.path.exists(initfile):
 >         # Should the other package be searched first or later?
 >         __path__.append(fullpath)
 > -------------------- snip snip --------------------

Actually, this would ensure the directory containing this would be
searched twice before other matching directories were searched, since
it will add itself again as the first matching directory.  (__path__
is initialized to contain the directory containing the package as
determined by the standard importer.)

 > One problem is the inability to answer the question in the comment,
 > since either answer may be correct depending on the circumstances.

Yes, that's a real problem.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
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