Wolfgang Maier added the comment: 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. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29258> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
