Message289345
While it is rather trivial to implement the proposed functionality - all that's required here is to eliminate the check for __init__.py from pkgutil._iter_file_finder_modules - this would have undesired impacts on, e.g., pydoc.apropos:
This function would then recursively report *any* directory/subdirectory on sys.path, which is quite surely not what people want.
I think this is a fundamental problem with namespace packages: they are nice and flexible for specific imports, but they make it impossible to know whether a directory found on the filesystem is *intended* as a Python package or not. |
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2017-03-10 09:54:01 | wolma | set | recipients:
+ wolma, brett.cannon, ncoghlan, eric.snow, Anthony Sottile |
2017-03-10 09:54:01 | wolma | set | messageid: <1489139641.59.0.995460492195.issue29258@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2017-03-10 09:54:01 | wolma | link | issue29258 messages |
2017-03-10 09:54:00 | wolma | create | |
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