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Author	vinay.sajip
Recipients	barry, brett.cannon, vinay.sajip
Date	2019-09-10.09:50:09
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Message-id	<1568109009.81.0.0762375022462.issue37683@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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> We've basically agreed that you should be able to load resources from subdirectories that aren't packages. It turns out to be not a simple change in importlib.resources, but contributions are welcome! In case anyone is interested, I've already done this in distlib.resources: https://distlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#the-distlib-resources-package Possibly a similar approach could be used.

> We've basically agreed that you should be able to load resources from subdirectories that aren't packages.  It turns out to be not a simple change in importlib.resources, but contributions are welcome!

In case anyone is interested, I've already done this in distlib.resources:

https://distlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#the-distlib-resources-package

Possibly a similar approach could be used.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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