Matthieu Pichaud wrote: > I have a problem organizing my programs in packages and subpackages. > > I use python.2.3.3 > I built a test structure to try to understand how it worked: > > /test > /test/__init__.py (containing: __all__=['test1']) > /test/test1/ > /test/test1/__init__.py (containing: __all__=['test2']) > /test/test1/test2/ > /test/test1/test2/__init__.py (containing: __all__=['test3']) > /test/test1/test2/test3.py (containing: print 'test3') > > Then I run: >>>> from test import * >>>> test1 > <module 'test.test1' from 'test/test1/__init__.py'> >>>> test2 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > NameError: name 'test2' is not defined
> So it seems that I am very limited in the number of subpackages I can > create. Not at all. > Is it normal? Yes : when you have nested namespaces, it won't magically become a flat namespace. There's a mostly clear documention on this in the official Python tutorial. > Am I silly organizing my programs like that? Dunno - it depends on the program. But still: python -c "import this" | grep nested HTH -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list